F-Line to Dudley
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Here's my proposal. All surface, no tunnel. Yellow shapes are building takes, mostly gas stations. There would be no additional street running LRV; basically all of it is on a separate reservation / right-of-way. The Green Line Brookline station would need to be moved to the west to avoid the track junctions.
The Arborway overpass would need to be redone, but no big loss based on comments about it I've seen on here. Its replacement with a more open structure would help with community connectivity.
I could see the mid-block thing working if some bling got spread around the hospital/medical offices to erect some bigger buildings on that block. Certainly no one's going to miss those somewhat ugly 2-story structures in the middle that could/should go much taller so long as they retain equivalent storefront space. Shouldn't necessarily treat these buildings as frozen-in-place with the big money anchoring that block. They'll want to exert their influence, and redev bait will be the price of admission. Not sure about severing Pearl because it acts as a de facto busway. You may want to consider modifying the edge of the air rights garage for a Pearl ramp up over the tracks aligned to the Station St./Kent intersection and drop a traffic light there to retain equivalent bus/kiss-and-ride loopage at the station. That wouldn't be hard to do.
I don't think remaking the Riverway overpass is going to work. That's a little bit overkill. Question to ask is does Huntington really need to be 6 travel lanes here when eastbound left-turns between Brookline Ave.-Riverway and westbound left-turns between Riverway-Washington are all prohibited by the median. You don't even need protected lefts on any of that block except for eastbound @ Brookline Ave. Lane-drop it to 2 travel lanes the whole length of the South Huntington-Brookline Ave. median and 2 travel + 1 protected left @ eastbound/Brookline Ave., then stripe one of those ultra-wide tiger-striped left shoulders in place on the Riverway block for the tracks to run through auto-prohibited. Signal coordination--which doesn't exist here today--can take care of the rest. And I do think if you've got South Huntington-Brigham prioritize for flow and Brookline Ave.-Washington and beyond prioritized for flow that you could give the trolleys a protected signal between Brookline and South Huntington without backing up car queues. Reference the Kenmore-BU Bridge effect on Comm Ave. and how much signal coordination eliminated those queues with a lane-drop.
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