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Any reason there's no bus service in the town of Dedham? All the MBTA routes seem to come to a halt at the town line (excepting the 34E) or at the mall. You could for example, extend the 33 route down milton, high, and east street through the town to terminate near the Dedham sq. rotary.

Combine the 15 and 66 routes to form one long crosstown route. 15: Harvard - Kane Sq or Fields Corner via Allston, Brookline, and DUdley Sq 66 (additional service): Allston (Union Sq) - Dudley Here are the specific changes: - Harvard-bound buses will drop off passengers in the Bennett alley...

Bus transit Pitches that I think seem reasonable Route Modifications: 74 (orange): Extended to the Avalon@Lexington Hills residences, 75 (orange): absorbs route 72 schedule, extended to Park Circle 85 (dark blue cutting directly across mid-somerville): Extend along Central and School, and up...

A southbound portal at the intersections of Blue Hill Ave, Washington St (Dorchester), and Geneva Ave. BHA widens significantly in this area so shave a lane off of each side + the median. With this you could theoretically have a 1-car 23 trolley street-running on Washington St, and a 2 or 3-car...

ditto growing up next to the Rindge Av towers and Jefferson Park.

A full blown LRT subway replacement of the Washington St El (as far as dudley, and diverging to portal at BHA's median) would be pretty nice. Give it like 150 years.

Crazy pitch: Suburban ring corridor stretching from Wonderland to North Quincy, fully underground light rail commuter line connecting the Boston suburbs. (by way of a long tunnel that kind of forms an inner inner belt.). What you end up with is a fairly circuitous Big Dig. a All but a few...

Bus Transit Pitches an express bus that follows the route of the 325/326 turning onto I-93 just east of Medford Sq. This bus however would run from Arlington Center along rt60 (medford and high st) making the local stops of the 80 and 94 routes, notable stops being Arlington, West Medford, and...

Would it be unreasonable to have these infill stops on the MBTA? 1. between Wellington and Malden stations on the Orange Line, located at the intersections of Pearl and Medford St. Call it "Edgeworth" or "South Malden". Provides transit to south malden, medford, and the northwestern portion of...

I have this idea for sets of 6 to 8-car paired D(or e)MU trains replacing the locomotives on the Commuter Rail but this plan allows for commuter branches, in that before the junction, the train stops, and the last two cars on the set disengage from the rest of the train. this now 4-6 car...

A Pitch for a car-less Boylston street, with surface transit prep work: Crazy Transit pitch involving moving the D and E branches into a separate subway. Basic idea: 1. refurbish old Boylston street incline with tracks branching off the subway just past the sharp turn from boylston station 2...

i like it! kind of a very very long bus route though. Did you consider about splitting it in two at Wellington? I could also see a spur to Arlington Center on Route 60.

By establishing service like this for the entirety of a weekend schedule and semi-regularly during the week it provides a one-seat ride from various waltham routes along a key bus corridor to rapid transit. The 350 from Alewife to Chestnut St in Burlington sorta does this for the 352. the...

what if we took the weekend trips of the 55X-series buses and throughrouted them past Newton Corner on the 57 route? Have every or every other inbound trip on the 505, 553, 554, 556, and 558 continue on to Kenmore Sq, and have maybe every 3 trips thru-route an outbound 57 bus back to Roberts...

Lowell St passes through Arlington and Lexington before becoming the Middlsex Turnpike adjacent to Route 3 and the Burlington Mall. If you were to take the tunnel on a right curve from Mass Ave at Arlington Heights the rest would essentially be a straight shot to the mall under Lowell St...

There's whatever's left of the medford branch?

I know It'd be a construction nightmare but if we're considering green line to Chelsea, than I'd be inclined to say build it over or under the Northeast Expressway, which roughly paralells the frequently packed 111 bus. Could terminate at like Woodlawn (where the 111 terminates) or the Northgate...

What about light rail access to South Boston and the City Point area? Either through the old 9 line through Broadway station or from the terminated SL3 route, but as a light rail exiting the transitway on D and Summer St, and continuing onto Broadway. The SL3 option connects the convention...

as in why do this?

Another sexy idea: taking the Lowell Line and creating a new ROW above I-93, passing through the circle near Medford Sq, than through the Utility ROW the begins at the interchange with Route 128, reconnecting with the old line at Anderson. This would free up the old lowell/haverhill routes for...