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This is the part I really don't get either. Even if the T were to transition to the much-more-frequent, electrified system TM wants, that doesn't happen overnight. Given the degree to which next to none of that work has actually happened (and, to the extent that some of it has, i.e. the battery...

Was E16 ever supposed to have two bridges? The silver protruding portion is quite a bit narrower than the other three, and I can't find a clear view of it with two bridges in any of the renderings.

Well, this is God Mode, so I'd say that a gauntlet isn't needed, because the only way CR can come off the FRA mode at all is if we've God Moded CSX's trackage rights into oblivion, and if we can do that by fiat then we can time-separate out any remaining freights. (I assume for this purpose we'd...

I know this has been suggested before, though I still have a hard time envisioning how a quad-track GC would work. Presumably the split to quad-tracking would need to be as close to the Park Street end of the station as possible (because otherwise what's the point if everything's going to back...

Brandeis/Roberts is relatively inconvenient to access by car from the highways, despite being relatively close to them the access is very roundabout. I don't know if I ever saw that parking lot full.

Where could you even fit it there? (And it'd be pretty close to Brandeis/Roberts at that.)

There's a couple of new-build buildings right around there, none of which properly show up on the maps. There's probably some way to Crazy Pitch a highway through there, but it's not gonna be that easy.

I'd bet someone did a Google search and just grabbed the first result, or some such thing. :rolleyes:

The base map is out of date (Google needs to update some of their imagery), that path goes through a large new building not yet on the map, just south of the Kane's Donuts.

They were sold for scrap, as I understand it, but I don't know if they've actually yet been scrapped.

Fair enough, though part of me thinks it's probably not worth the effort to change the designation as long as it has an identifiable designation (Everett Turnpike), given that the non-locals are probably going to be using GPS. (Also, would it make more sense just to extend the US 3 designation...

Is there any particular need for it to be an Interstate? Knowing New Hampshire they'd probably balk at the cost of replacing all the signs (well, unless re-designating it came with a fat chunk of federal highway dollars, I suppose).

It's the "getting to the Transitway" that's the problem, for me. Somewhere in one of these threads (either this one or Crazy Transit Pitches) there was a pretty thorough back-and-forth from a few years ago on how it might not even be possible to get into the transitway via Atlantic, and the only...

Which bus tunnel? The Silver Line?

Not necessarily. There was once a crossover from the northbound/inbound Tremont wall track (current track 4) to the fence track (current track 3), which would allow access to the loop. I don't think there was ever one from track 2 to track 1, so you'd have to add one (there are two current...

X Definitely. A forced transfer off of Washington effectively replicates (if not in quite as severe a form) the Silver Line's inbred inadequacy as an Elevated replacement; the lack of transfers. You'd get the Red Line, which is an improvement, but at the cost of a less-useful connection to the...

Fascinating post as usual, and I might go back and add more comments later once I've calmed downs from Bruins-induced irritation. Having experienced quite a few encounters with that atrocious intersection at Summer and the surface route where the South Station offramp comes up from the tunnel, I...

The T frequently seems quite sluggish on escalator repairs. I don't know if that's an in-house thing or a contractor thing. It definitely seems like it's lower on the priority list than elevator outages (which is understandable, given that elevator outages tend to make stations completely...

Not that this is the correct thread for this, but none of that makes any sense. The only thing where there's any question marks as to what Amtrak is buying is the next order for Long Distance equipment they're currently working on. And, while the outcome of that procurement is yet to be...

No chance whatsoever Amtrak ever thought about Class 345s. They're a foot and a half (nearly) too narrow and five or so inches too low to serve US high-level platforms. They bear a (very) superficial similarity to the Airo trainsets Amtrak's recently ordered from Siemens (in that they have a...