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As @RandomWalk said, kids can be chaotic. If its supposed to be a community path, then that should be accommodated for. Or just accept that families belong in the suburbs and the city belong to young childless professionals.

Do we have any data on which sections of the NEC (or in general) are the most congested?

After having a discussion on HSR in the general Amtrak thread, I had a thought: Could an alternate Northeast Regional along the Inland Route be revived? It could go Boston-Springfield-New Haven (with whatever intervening stops are justified), and then as far south as makes sense. This could work...

I really feel like we’re talking at cross purposes here. I used Acela merely as a shorthand for our lone true HSR route. I’m not really talking about the branding. I’m talking about how it seems that funding gets thrown around at disparate networks rather than gradually building out one network.

I'm not really making a transit pitch here. Just to use the Empire Corridor as an example, I'm curious why the topic is approached from the point of view of "here is one place where the powers that be would like to see High Speed Rail" and not "here's somewhere we could expand the Acela...

Certainly the existing demand matters a lot, which is why my inquiry is about expanding existing service. At the moment, the two busiest lines are the Acela and NE Regional, and are followed reasonably closely by the Empire and Keystone. However, those second two should not be viewed in a...

But how many have the panache of a 19th century suspended monorail?

Just a generic question on high speed rail in the US. I know there’s a lot of projects across the country that are always being studied, but little is being done. Is there any effort to prioritize building out HSR in areas that are connected to the current Acela line? For example, along the...

Thanks, thats pretty much exactly what I was looking for! Don’t know how I couldn’t find it before.

No, I’m looking for a close up one so I can see where it’d actually be going within the towns.

Can’t seem to find it on the mbta site, nor searching through this thread: can someone direct me to a close-up map of phase 2? One where you can see where the route is going, relative to actual locations in towns?

I just mean anywhere. Run it along Storrow and the Pike, or the harbor, or Southie…

We laugh, but a retro-looking suspended monorail like Wuppertal’s would be a tourist attraction in its own right.

Thanks for the info! $20 mil per station is nuts, but not surprising

Not relevant to the current conversations, but one going on in the CR to NH thread: For the entire Commuter Rail system, whats the portion of stations that currently have high platforms? What is the typical cost to upgrade a single station from low to high? I know TransitMatters is saying $250...

Thanks @Brattle Loop and @F-Line to Dudley I should clarify that I wasn’t referring really to taking over existing rail (that is an option for the 1960s), but building out their own lines. I used Brightline as an example because they’re building a bunch of the tracks themselves (they don’t...

This is just a generic Amtrak question. Is there any impetus anywhere for Amtrak to acquire its own tracks, so they don’t have to compete with the freight lines? As much as its fun to rag on the US intercity passenger rail system, the freight system is world class (and given the numbers, it...

Agreed that they're clearly pushing that design. But lets be honest: there are enough NIMBYs around that anything remotely different will never get off the page. May as well just accept that and help smooth the way forward. That said, whether it is just due to the proposal priming me or genuine...

But where would it go? Where I-90 and Rte 20 intersect is pretty much the bridge over the river, and the elevation between the two highways is pretty high. Maybe where Rte 23 crosses the Pike? Its not directly relevant to that, but for the north-south proposal, the best solution is to finish...

I’d say a little creative upgrading of the Braintree split could resolve that. And a hospital most certainly could maintain a shuttle bus to the train station thats 3 minutes away.