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I went over everything on google earth, plotting routes and station locations. Unless I made a mistake (which is entirely possible), there should be no major developments that would need demolishing. I think in a few places you need to get rid of one or two buildings or deviate behind a new...

I'm keeping this in Crazy Transit Pitches because I'd argue over the timescale you'd be seeing anywhere near a full-build at, it's could possibly maybe not be that expensive. SMART is building rail in California at $30m per mile today. But yes, it does involve a total (if gradual) total...

The red-jackets are outsourced, paid minimum wage and get minimal training. It shouldn't be too hard to figure out from that why having them do fare enforcement would be a bad idea, but it's roughly in the same category of why retail workers are told not to confront shoplifters, for example.

Here's one that really surprised me, the Lille Metro: Colbert Tourcoing Centre Mercure Lille Europe Wazemmes Rihour Wasquehal Pavé de Lille Mons Sarts Montbello (fish!) Port de Lille Mitterie République Beaux Arts

Generally the best approach but it's also worth considering that intersections are sometimes destinations, with attractions and businesses concentrated around them. They also might be built up more, with higher buildings than other parts of the street which compounds with the light-blocking of...

You have options. If you have an open plot you can do a ground level station building on one side, you could take add entrances on each sidewalk by removing some street parking and shifting the travel lanes, or you can put the entrance in the median and again take some street parking away for a...

By being significantly wider, and with good street design. Curb-to-curb Columbia Rd is about 85 feet wide. For comparison the 'wide' parts of Washington St are 70 feet across, the narrow parts about 40 feet. Between stations the viaduct would be about 30 feet across, the supports underneath are...

I was in NYC a few years back and had just gone to see Coney Island because it felt like a thing I should do at least once, but I didn't want to pay that much for food so I took the D up to somewhere, and yeah the views out the train were amazing. And then I got off the train, went down to...

What I think might be the most interesting part of the history is that it's a much more... uncomfortable case of urban renewal/land repurposing than the more well known examples. I think most people at this point would be in agreement that the destruction of Scollay Sq, the West End, and the...

Fun prompt I've wonder about for a while, would transport in Boston look different if MA had a local rolling stock manufacturer in the 1900s? Say the St Louis Car Company (the largest PCC streetcar manufacturer along with most NYC subway cars until the 1970s) was based in Springfield instead...

Taken January 11th of this year and posted in the Photo of the Day thread previously, but I feel like it fits here too.

Some poor soul on the reddit seems to have paid $27 for a printed copy of an extremely unfinished version of my first fantasy map from Amazon.

...which is why you don't mindlessly copy things. The River Line has too much single track, therefore a new interurban should have less single track. This does not disprove the idea of a modern interurban, it suggests the specific implementation has some flaws which are not fundamental to an...

Re: Providence <-> Fall River <-> New Bedford: Why not light rail à la River Line? There are 3 major discontinuities, Downtown Providence, Downtown Fall River, and Ocean Grove. All of them could be worked around with a bit of street-running, possibly single-tracked for short portions to avoid...

There are a few reasons: 1. There's got to be a connecting hub somewhere. 2. Each of these services serves a purpose, and removing one would be a sacrifice, not an optimization. Gardner-North Adams for service along the Mohawk trail, Greenfield-Boston for an express connection to Boston from...

I'm just about done with (V1 of) everything west of Lowell that's in MA, so here's an update. (Scope creep has set in, unsurprisingly.)

Yes. There is a lot of demand from Salem, and it is still split between Downtown/Everett/Chelsea and Revere/East Boston/MGH like Lynn. In addition to 2-3 infills (depends how you count Riverworks) in Lynn, Swampscott could be moved to the BL speeding up Newburyport/Rockport trips and you can add...

The first 30 or so pages of the report are a "state of the field" report, essentially. What are current conditions in Boston, what's new in transportation, and what's being tried around the world. They point to the success of Bluebikes hubs for multimodal trips quite a lot, and they also talk a...

I maintain my position of "NEC all the way" but without a Readville rebuild some trains on the Fairmount Line will be necessary. I think there is a strong case for stopping at at least some stations. Under the BNRD Talbot Ave has a direct high frequency bus connection to Longwood and Newmarket...

100% agree until here. Readville needs a rebuild, and if you accept that I don't really see why all Franklin Line trains shouldn't continue on the NEC. A track arrangement like this: ↑↓↓↕↑ supports 2 Franklin tracks, two Providence Tracks, and one Amtrak express track at Readville without any...