But you said you were done, and you already took my request
You're right, it should be finished...
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You're right, it should be finished...
Thanks man. I am working on the current system map for shits and grins. I wish the SL would be classified as a regular bus route as it pretty much is to Dudley. I personally find it stupid how hyped this line is when it is really just an articulated bus painted silver with some lane dedication.
Agreed. All the heavily used bus routes should receive that kind of consideration: dedicated lanes, better bus stops, signal priority, and (something not done on the SL) faster boarding and better fare payment options.
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I think it might still need some work, but that's how I'd do the current system.
That's pretty damn good. I might try to tug Reservoir right up against that C circle at Cleveland Circle - those 2 stations are much closer together than CC and Chestnut Hill Ave, and your map makes them look symmetrical.
I love the way this makes Chelsea, Harvard and Dudley really look like the hubs they are. The current T map definitely fails at that, since it's too cluttered and busy to tell where things come together.
You probably need to show at least transfers for commuter rail, too, at N/S Station, BBY, Porter, Forest Hills, Chelsea and the Quincy/Braintree stops.
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Awesome job. Still, not even the best of map creators can untangle the mess they made of Silver Line service downtown. I imagine that was a bit of a time sink for you, as well it should have been. If a service can't be illustrated using a simple line on a system diagram - and instead needs to be portrayed as a twisting series of overlapping spaghetti noodles - then something is very wrong with the service itself.
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Agreed on the Silver Line downtown. Your solution with the arcs is extremely elegant.
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The GLX to Medford should probably be stretched out a bit farther. About as far out as Malden Ctr is.
100% with you on that one..
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Awesome map design. For the Commuter Rail, don't forget Ruggles, Malden Center and JFK/UMass as well.
It is actually! It's my idea that the Incompetent Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority may one day be disbanded and formed into a new entity without having to sacrifice the original acronym.
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Well, you can have that name or you can have rail service to Providence and Manchester. You likely can't have both...
That was my reasoning behind mass(T)ransit. Its still the T, but with a new name to show off its new service. Plus I love homonyms for company names.
One thing about terminating the (A) at Oak Square: the car barn is long gone, replaced by the YMCA. So you can't really have tracks that just terminate there. It needs to go to Watertown Yard, where at least there's some storage space still, may as well run revenue service there.
Interesting, I did not know the YMCA was a rail house, or where it stands now anyhow. I was considering that it would perhaps be possible for an LRT to loop around the roundabout at Oak Sq? But I suppose there should be some way trains could terminate and be cleaned or whatever considering that this future GL would have more trains and more capacity given such things as better signaling as a top priority as well. But yea, I was figuring maybe something like Heath St. could be done at Oak Sq.
It would be pretty cool to see at-grade GL service down Brighton Ave thru Allston Village (replacing the 57) and have wicked fast service right thru BU with a Comm. Ave. Subway where the A and B would utilize. I imagine the B would pop out from underground after Harvard Ave westbound around where Griggs is now. There's no traffic intersections to contend with and Griggs PAX could walk the 300 ft. to Allston St. The B Line would become a rocket with this stuff done.
I extended the GL past Porter down what looks like used to be an ROW to Watertown. Maybe I'd switch the F there and the B to W. Medford.
Also I realized how close the GLX (F) up to W. Medford was to the Orange, which in reality would be much closer to Arlington so I tweaked that and made it run in a straight line in that direction. It'd be nice to get Watertown in on the whole thing seeing that there is considerable population density there!
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