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My larger point was that the dance doesn't have a functional way to work once Red/Blue is implemented because the solution becomes to ignore the connection. That's why I said it was futile.

The Crimson is not the place to get this information; The Boston Globe is. The difference is that many urbanists, like yourself and including Mayor Wu, don't have any experience understanding the actual needs of rail transit. When they made this plan, that was also true of the MBTA. Phil Eng...

What is the issue here? It's currently a rail yard. Before it was a rail yard, it was a wetland. It has no historical precedent as being anything other than those two things. They are asking to keep some of it a rail yard, significantly less mind you, because it makes intercity rail functional...

The last statement isn't correct. Westbound Blue Line Riders may wish to go north or south given that the direct connection would be faster than making the transfer to a transfer. Hence why the whole thing is fraught. A simpler solution might be to have a scheduled departure time for all last...

It's not as clean, though, at 45 degrees as the 90 degrees. Harry Beck got around this with thinner lines compares to junction stations but ours are the same width (approximately) and by having only 2 on the original map out of all the junctions.

Then let's get bigger than that. Monica Tibbits-Nutt, the current Secretary of Transportation has time and time again argued for these principles from center running bus lanes, separated bike infrastructure, road narrowing, daylighting, tight turn radii, angle of approach, bus and train...

Not really. It sucks, but what they are really doing is trying to achieve it through the political means they have available to them. Better to have something, than nothing. It's like the piecemeal implementation of bike lanes. The people in charge of that plan absolutely know what is truly...

Good. We should be provisioning for intense use of the station and right of way. The Globe article goes into more detail about the politics of this decision and it appears to come from Eng and Amtrak. Wu and allies want such a layover to be in Widett where the MBTA recently acquired land, but...

The reality is that any Chelsea service should be on Broadway pretty much all the way to 60. It should not be on Route 1, Everett should get its own Transit up Broadway/99, but Chelsea is built around Broadway and that's where the subway should be. The only exception I see is that it might take...

Its supposed to be twice the passenger capacity of single type 7 or 8 in one and a half times the space. The original plan was to have the driver be sealed off and not collecting fares so a single operator could do it in theory if the front cab can control the doors for both vehicles although...

@KCasiglio and I were having a back and forth about Hartford Commuter Rail/Regional Rail to Norwich (and New London?) via Willimantic. @F-Line to Dudley has discussed it here and here with the North Manchester RoW being reactivated till the junction with the Vermont Central RoW down to New...

I'd be willing to put a substantial amount of money on this section of the forum almost universally watching CityNerd. Most people here have not buried their heads in the sand relative to the current and potential states of transit funding at local, state, and federal levels. At the same time...

You are taking people way too literally with this. People are rightfully celebrating T victories and you're coming across as sour grapes because it's not 100%. I hear you; there are substantial issues with the T still and many users are still having a poor or terrible experience, but that's...

Of course, but was that then, and, is that now the majority community desire? My understanding is that it's still not wanted over more frequent commuter rail service.

That's not apples to apples. They funded and built it for the commuter rail and then will be changing the line used for the same. It's not the difference between building for one type of rail and then rebuilding for a different one. You're still offering light rail as a cost cutting measure when...

What's the ROW on Braintree to Weymouth? Yeah, I'm not comparing it to Blue Line to Lynn because that's an absolute no-brainer on who comes first in line.

I think we very much agree that expanded bus service to AH is the short term compromise, however, I can't see a world in which it is ever feasible to destroy the bikeway for a light rail line in place of the heavy rail extension. Why would the local politics support a forced transfer? Why would...

Those projections are from the past though. Lexington is one of the success stories of the MBTA communities act. They proceeded in actual good faith and are seeing development in the places that matter. Many of the people against the proposal are doing so on the back of limited bus service so...

I agree. In a red line conversion it would also work well as a link with a 203 BRT/BRT lite ring from Forest Hills to a hypothetical Neponset/Morrisey station on the Braintree Line.

Yeah, I was responding to @393b40 in their pitch to go directly directly to Hanscom with a branch to Burlington. What I failed to make clear (at all) is that I don't think such late branching is worthwhile so what I'm saying is that you can go to Hanscom, Bedford (Maybe, maybe Hanscom to...