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Theres a cable car system in Santiago Chile that has dedicated bike cars so Luggage might be a solvable problem. I haven’t found out how they do that though in my admittedly little searching. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago_Cable_Car /edit/ I found a video for how it works, not sure how...

In a general sense I think that regional rail plus rail sprawl could make a serious dent in the housing shortage. If you can make 495 45 minutes from Boston then it’s about as far by transit as Watertown, that would open up a lot of land for dense development. Plus much of it would be greenfield...

This is a bit of a dead horse but since important people keep bringing it up. If we assume that the eastern route is reconnected to Portland and the NSRL would still be built. How viable would a tunnel from south station to the eastern route be as a way to send the Acela and the Downeaster to...

With the Dieselstution of the 71 and 73 why not send these buses to Sullivan square along the route the 86 uses. The goal would be to get 5 to 15 minute bus frequencies all day along a line that connects three of the rapid transit lines red at Harvard, orange at Sullivan and green at east...

Assuming we had a modernized regional rail network with a North South rail link how feasible would it be to convert the D branch of the green line and any extensions to Needham to regional rail. I think the utility of this would be freeing up capacity on the central subway and creating...

What kinds of all day frequencies can north and south station support with their current setup, could we get a train every 15 minutes like transit matters says?

I think the reasonable transit pitch for increasing grades to save money is the Alon Levy proposal to make the tunnel only for EMUs.

I was thinking that you’d still have the underground alignment so that in the distant future when you did build a proper underground nsrl you could repurpose the elevated as a park like the high-line or use it as bypass for trains that wanted to run through Boston without making multiple stops...

I know this is politically DOA but engineering wise how crazy would it be to build the north south rail link as an el. I’m thinking you would have two tracks going over either Atlantic avenue or purchase street with stops at north and south station. Ideally you’d do four tracks with a stop at...