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The stub with the question mark is the proposed East Boston Expressway, which would have upgraded MA Route 60 (the old Route C-1) to Interstate Standards between the harbor tunnels, Logan Airport and this interchange in Revere. Some of the mounds for the ramps for the East Boston Expressway can...

Because there's no money to replace the bridge that carries the Eastern branch of the MBTA Commuter Rail across the Merrimack River. The bridge was closed in 1969 because river current has undermined the existing piers. The entire bridge would have to be replaced to extend the line across the...

Again, I ask the question, what public transportation? I worked in Billerica, MA; Durham, NH; Salem, MA; Danvers, MA; North Andover, MA and Andover, MA, during my thirty-year engineering career, and not one (1) of those locations was served by public transit! So while what you propose sounds...

I like the idea of fuel cells, but we don't need to wait for pure hydrogen to make it work. Bloom Energy has been making solid-oxide fuel cell systems for about fifteen (15) years now, and they use Natural Gas with a reformer to feed hydrogen into the cell array. The output power is 480VAC...

This is a side topic, but why do we continue buying buses that burn natural gas? Why don't we fit them with a reformer and fuel cells instead, to improve efficiency and reduce emissions? In addition to offering much lower emissions, higher efficiency and reduced noise, fuel cell buses could also...

I agree. The corollary is that it doesn't have to be either/or, but why not both transit AND highways? The Orange Line was to be run in the median of the SW Expressway and terminate at University Ave. RR Station instead of Forest Hills, so we lost both highway and transit capacity when "Sarge"...

Only if we get a capacity upgrade between Lynnfield and Saugus! If not burying Route 1, at least add frontage roads to both sides of the highway so traffic entering from businesses doesn't immediately conflict with the through traffic running at highway speeds, and collecting the businesses into...

I'm not against transit (see the beginning of my post), and yes, transit needs upgrades, but the sad fact is that we don't have enough road capacity to handle the cars on the road now, let alone future growth in auto use, and the "spoke" roads (US Route 1, I-93, Mass Pike, and the SE Expressway)...

Yes, extend the Blue line not just Lynn, but to Peabody, with the Terminal Station located at the Northshore Mall. I-95 and the Beverly-Salem connector should have been built, to improve access to 128 from Lynn, Salem, Swampscott and Marblehead, while reducing the traffic volume on Route 1 from...

And those abutting businesses are the reason that US Route 1 between Saugus and Danvers has one of the worst accident rates in MA! Each curb cut forces traffic to make a ninety (90) degree right turn then accelerate from a dead stop to sixty (60) mph! All of the grade separated interchanges...

Then how come the picture shows the prior location of DeFranzo Circle, the Route 99 & Route 1 Interchange, with the proposed rotary drawn in red on the picture? The caption under the picture follows below: "This allows for a free flow of traffic in all directions without signals (all...

Or a pedestrian tunnel, they're quite common out West, but a rarity east of the Mississippi River.

The small spit of land in the lower right corner of the photo was the cancelled East Boston Expressway, which would have upgraded Route 60 and Route 1A to Interstate Standards between Logan Airport, the Sumner & Callahan Tunnels, and I-95, and was cancelled at the same time Governor Frank...

So you want to go back to the old DeFranzio Circle configuration that this interchange replaced in 1969-73? God help us! This configuration is much improved, except for the left-hand entrance ramp from Route 99 North to Route 1 North, and adding a second overpass parallel to the existing...