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That's the nature of transit pitches - it's very common for multiple people to independently come up with similar ideas, especially in a 300-plus-page thread! If you look at the very first page of this thread, there are ideas there that we still discuss 15 years later - and there's someone...

I think that's been proposed on here before, and I know Ari Ofsevit has proposed it. It's certainly not easy - you're talking 4-5 miles of new tunnel, almost entirely under water and filled land - but certainly intriguing.

It makes a bit more sense within historical context. South Acton has always been one of the more significant stations on the line - it was the junction for the branch to Marlborough (after the 1930s, Maynard), and has been a short turn terminal since the late 19th century. Littleton never was a...

Those all seem generally logical. My very quick add-ons: Riverside expansion is tricky because of the proposed development. There is a plausible case for double-decking the storage tracks, though. The inside of the Needham Junction wye was proposed in the 1945-47 Coolidge Commission plan...

There was also a century less of buried utilities and high-rises to complicate construction. And while the BERy's subway/surface transfer stations tended to be spacious, the downtown stations were often rather cramped, never mind modern needs like elevators and escalators and their machinery...

Yeah, and South Acton does have a bit more parking - 287 spots versus 203.

This is clearly the whales' revenge for the MBTA extending service to the Whaling City.

Thanks for this - where are these slides from?

Wickford Junction was never expected to generate substantial ridership to Boston - it was always intended for high-frequency intrastate service. That never materialized, and now it's a sore thumb.

Where are these slides from?

Correct!

Not my photo (actually taken by MassDEP in 2008) but here's one that baffled me for a bit.

Valley Road being eliminated would end a nearly-century-old oddity: the station is not and has never been at Valley Road. Valley Road is 450 feet to the west, while Rock View Road is half that distance. It's not a result of names being changed - the road names were in place decades before the...

Also interesting to note: after being reintroduced in December 2024, 57A service is again being cut in favor of better frequency on the full 57. They're claiming frequency increases from "every 15-20" to "every 10" on the 77 at peak hours as well. However, the 77 currently seems to run as...

https://www.mbta.com/news/2025-03-27/mbta-announces-spring-schedules-increases-subway-and-bus-service-frequency

They would have had to drive up this ramp, despite a gate, yellow crossbars, and no indication it is open to the public. Then they would have had to drive about 200 feet along what is clearly a platform to get to that point. That's an extra level of cluelessness compared to, say, the people who...

My bet is that the following will be complete by 2035: Red-Blue Connector, Battleship Cove, Buzzards Bay, South Salem, Fairmount electric service, SL3, Blue Hill Avenue, BNRD completion. Those that I wouldn't be surprised about: GLX to Route 16, Edgemont infill, GLX to Needham, Nashua...

With South Coast Rail open and nothing else under construction*, the question becomes: what's the next transit expansion for the region? This is my list of plausible candidates - i.e, those projects that are sufficiently in the public consciousness that them being under construction within a...

Cedar Grove is a definite keep to me. It's the best transit access to Cedar Grove cemetery and Dorchester Park (especially if Butler is closed), and 1800 feet is a reasonable light rail stop spacing. Given the difficulty of providing an accessible path from the outbound Ashmont platform to...

The MBTA now has a project page for the Longwood Medical Area Bus Circulation Study: https://www.mbta.com/projects/longwood-medical-area-bus-circulation-study Bus Network Redesign calls for substantially more service to the LMA, but punted on actual routings within the LMA, so this study is to...