Boston Landing | New Balance Complex | Brighton

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The rink portion and NBHQ go together extremely well. Well done.
 
Re: New Brighton Landing | New Balance Complex | Brighton

BRA approved a 17 story apartment/retail building last night. Complex will contain 295 apartments plus ground floor retail.
Boston Landing Apts. 295u

Mod can we change the title of this thread to Boston Landing please?
 
Re: New Brighton Landing | New Balance Complex | Brighton

The apartment building looks great.
Where exactly will it be located?
 
can someone expain the interruption of the Boston/Albany/Chicago double track and dogleg?

was this done to create room for the worksite?
 
Thanks. i fully sharded on that one. :banghead:
 
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Is there a low tower coming right?

If so, does anyone know what the height will be?
 
Saw them pouring concrete at the station site yesterday. Tried to grab a pic as I went by on the pike but missed.
 
schwein said:
yes, the CSX freight track next to Rt90 will remain as it sits now once the station is completed.
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Less about freight than an early provision for that new layover yard the T is scheduled to build after the whole Pike straightening project is done. Yard limits will eventually go pretty close to that station, so it saves some ops awkwardness to bypass the platform and pick up speed when moving out-of-service equipment around rather than go molasses-slow through the station every single time.

And it'll help express trains and Amtrak down the line when the overlapping schedules get much fatter frequencies. 1 passing opportunity per every 2 stations--either in the form of crossovers or a passing track--is what'll juggle Indigo-Riverside, Framingham/Worcester locals, Worcester expresses, and more robust Amtrak service in the future. Yawkey + West = NB as passing spot #1. Unlike the Newtons and Wellesleys which will have to be crossovers for bobbing and weaving, they've got room for the passer here and at to-be-renovated Natick and are future-proofing for it.
 
Whenever the T adds a commuter rail station, they add it to the schedule of every express commuter rail train. When they completed Yawkey, they added Yawkey to the schedules of express Natick, Framingham and Worcester trains. Just because they add a spanking new station, doesn't mean it should screw the express train riders. No one on an express train to Framingham or Worcester wants to stop at West Station. You can see how pointless adding the new stations to the express schedules are when the express trains stop at Yawkey to pickup 5 passengers and adds 10 minutes to the Worcester trip.
 
Im under the impression that is only temporary until the dmu's run from south station to allston yards.
 
navigator4 said:
Whenever the T adds a commuter rail station, they add it to the schedule of every express commuter rail train. When they completed Yawkey, they added Yawkey to the schedules of express Natick, Framingham and Worcester trains. Just because they add a spanking new station, doesn't mean it should screw the express train riders. No one on an express train to Framingham or Worcester wants to stop at West Station. You can see how pointless adding the new stations to the express schedules are when the express trains stop at Yawkey to pickup 5 passengers and adds 10 minutes to the Worcester trip.
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You'd be wrong. The proposed starter schedule for NB is 2 A.M. peak inbounds, 2 P.M. peak outbounds, and TBD number of off-peak trains.

New Yawkey was the only "new" stop added to the legacy Framingham Line since old skip-stop Yawkey debuted 28 years ago. One schedule change does not a precedent-setter make. Literally.
 
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