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That steel has indeed been taken down. However, butterfly canopies are up on both ends of the platforms, all of the platform segments are now placed, and stairs and a utility room are beginning to take take on the western end.
 
This looks great at night you can see inside and all of the banners are up and easily seen from the pike.
 
Everett Street elevator shaft for the station is back in place.
 
Railroad.net saying it wont open until May? WTF
 
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jass said:
Railroad.net saying it wont open until May? WTF
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April / May its all still better than not having a station what so ever, which is where we would all be if New Balance didn't step in with such a generous donation to the city.
 
jass said:
Railroad.net saying it wont open until May? WTF
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Per the RR.net post in question, while the station may be progressing quite nicely (and is ahead of schedule), the Beacon Park double track is what is controlling the schedule. They can't bring the station online until the double track is finished, as inserting a station stop on the only single-track section of the Worcester is practically demanding trouble.
 
Uncivil_Engineer said:
They can't bring the station online until the double track is finished, as inserting a station stop on the only single-track section of the Worcester is practically demanding trouble.
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Why not?

Its not like the line is running a 10 minute headway

better some trains stop than none
 
jass said:
Why not?

Its not like the line is running a 10 minute headway

better some trains stop than none
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On the Worcester Line? Hell no...it's already at near state of collapse inbound of 128 because of the Beacon Park single-track and wretchedly limited signal system. A southside engineer who routinely works the line describes rush hour east of Framingham on RR.net as an exercise in "running the yellow lights" end-to-end because of how thin the headway margins are on that garbage signaling infrastructure. If one train gets out-of-sync the cascading delays bring down the entire rush hour. It literally can't get any better than this until they spend 9 figures to re-signal the whole inner half of the line. That's years enough of design-build away that holding horses until the Beacon Park tracks are reconnected is the only way to use this station at all.

It's not even expected to have more than a handful of trains per day because the current infrastructure won't allow for it. New Balance is a future-leaning investment for when they upgrade to high-density signaling and nimble passing crossovers that can cram the line chock full of every fully-loaded schedule permutation imaginable. Then it'll be a big deal. NB is just paying it forward by building now.
 
^^wow. i wuz just gonna say; 'from the photos, it appears

1. there will be 3 tracks running through the station.
2. they will load and unload passengers from the platform
3. using 2 of the 3 tracks.
4. neither of which appear to be, as yet, built. :)'
 
odurandina said:
^^wow. i wuz just gonna say; 'from the photos, it appears

1. there will be 3 tracks running through the station.
2. they will load and unload passengers from the platform
3. using 2 of the 3 tracks.
4. neither of which appear to be, as yet, built. :)'
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Yes. Island platform with a passing track. The site where it's being built had 4 tracks when Beacon Park was still open for freight, and platform eats only 1 track berth. No reason not to install the passer when most Worcester trains and all Amtraks skip that station and traffic is only going to spiral up, up, up with time. West Station at the east end of Beacon Park is going to be configured exactly the same way.
 
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F-Line to Dudley said:
On the Worcester Line? Hell no...it's already at near state of collapse inbound of 128 because of the Beacon Park single-track and wretchedly limited signal system. A southside engineer who routinely works the line describes rush hour east of Framingham on RR.net as an exercise in "running the yellow lights" end-to-end because of how thin the headway margins are on that garbage signaling infrastructure. If one train gets out-of-sync the cascading delays bring down the entire rush hour. It literally can't get any better than this until they spend 9 figures to re-signal the whole inner half of the line. That's years enough of design-build away that holding horses until the Beacon Park tracks are reconnected is the only way to use this station at all.

It's not even expected to have more than a handful of trains per day because the current infrastructure won't allow for it. New Balance is a future-leaning investment for when they upgrade to high-density signaling and nimble passing crossovers that can cram the line chock full of every fully-loaded schedule permutation imaginable. Then it'll be a big deal. NB is just paying it forward by building now.
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Again, who said anything about rush hour.

Start as a Yawkey, grow from there. Customer service 101, a class the MBTA missed.

Trains run 2 hours apart on weekends

Dont give me any BS about a lack of capacity.

They dont want to stop because they plan for their own convenience, not that of the public. It is not convenient for them to start serving a stop outside of a bi-annual schedule change because fuck you.
 
It doesn't work like that, jass. Starting with off-peak-and-weekend-only would be useless for a station that's fundamentally best for weekday peak hours. That's when the Pike and Storrow and Comm Ave all suck, that's when the B Branch is at its worst, and that's when the 66 most struggles to keep schedule. Plus, the biggest market right now is Allston/Brighton commuters and NB workers, who are aligned most towards a normal commute schedule.

Yawkey was originally for game-day service only; that's a market that fundamentally doesn't exist for BL. Its first regular service, contrary to your argument, was rush-hour only; the next schedule change three months later added a few off-peak and weekend stops. With the exception of one station - red-headed stepchild Plymouth - the established method for entering a station into service slowly is always to start with limited peak service, and add off-peak and weekend service as demand grows.

Schedule changes - even minor ones like an infill station - don't work in a vacuum.
 
^^ i wish, in a few years after many new projects are done, they would electrify a few of the commuter lines for short/nimble/fast GE Silverliners (latter day/green Buddliner) for intermediate/lower-demand trips inside Rt128 and then add a few late-night trains to Readville, Needham, Wellesley, Woburn, Melrose, etc. Sad to see the T lagging behind DC and peer Philly metro.
 
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