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Physically impossible. Between the I-93 decks' support pegs and the Orange Line viaduct not touching down at ground level until it's underneath the Cambridge St. overpass there's no way to worm a commuter rail track over to the 3rd OL platform at proper track geometry and no way to widen anywhere else for a new platform. It's a thoroughly fixed space. There is room on the other side of Maffa Way, but that would've only worked as a superstation if the pre-'75 Sullivan station property were retrofitted for the new alignment. It's a functionally useless block away from the OL platforms, busway, and entrance.

This is why the first CR station on the cleanroomed 1975 ROW stayed at Malden and not Sullivan in the first place. 93 came first and everything...the pit, the viaduct...was shaped by those deck pegs. This Sullivan CR idea didn't escape them; they considered it, revisited the idea years later, and rearranging things between the pegs never washed in any way engineerable in non-broken fashion. Just because you can squint on Street View from the overpasses and conclude "This might work if you nudge X, Y, and Z" doesn't mean it'll work at track geometry that'll preserve service levels on a mainline lead that has to serve 2 masters. If the turnouts can only handle a 5 MPH platform approach you triple-kill every achievable headway to Reading, Newburyport, and Rockport at the same time. That's not an acceptable tradeoff for cramming 3 CR stations for 5 OL stations, or 2 for 3 out of North Station.

Looks like the CR tracks are all to the West of the 93 supports at Sullivan Square. Sure it might take a few backyard land takings along Brighton St to make it work, but it doesn't look like any structures are in the way.
 
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The tracks west of the Orange Line are what is left of Yard 21 (what Assembly is being built on). These tracks are crucial, especially as a result of GLX agreements, for storage by both Pan Am for freight and by the MBTA for work trains. The commuter rail is already east of the Orange Line by the time you hjt Sullivan Sq station.
 
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Looks like the CR tracks are all to the West of the 93 supports at Sullivan Square. Sure it might take a few backyard land takings along Brighton St to make it work, but it doesn't look like any structures are in the way.

No, it can't because the Orange Line viaduct underneath the I-93 from Community College descends back to grade underneath the Cambridge St. overpass within a few dozen feet of the current platforms, too tight to shift the tracks 50 feet over onto the freight berths. Orange platform location is locked in-place, which is why the CR tracks to the east are also locked in-place and can't be rearranged to fit a platform in the pit. Viaduct can't be modified either to split the pegs before it touches down, because the grafted-on Leverett ramp split adds additional support pegs blocking the opening to shift it while still in mid-air.

This was never possible because the 93 decks came first. If it were possible, they would've considered the CR station or future-proofed Sullivan for all modal possibilities (a la the unused Oak Grove CR platform) way back in 1975. As Urbie notes, those freight tracks are the Urban Ring BRT/LRT alignment so there'll definitely be a cross-platform transfer on the Brighton St. side someday. You could even modify the GLX yard leads for revenue service sooner and just stub-out at Sullivan for low-hanging fruit's sake while putting off crossing the Mystic to some other day and some other megaproject. Then extend C's to terminate at Sullivan instead of North Station to make it useful.
 
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Haverhill service should absolutely be via the Wildcat, no doubt. As to the latter, I don't think converting Reading service to Orange Line is the greatest idea in terms of capacity and potential service patterns. I think leaving the Reading service for DMU/EMU in tandem with Orange Line service is how the entire Sullivan-Reading corridor could be beefed up the heaviest. I think layered services are the way to really create a high capacity corridor.

Short-term, yes...that's arguably the most dead-obvious northside Indigo corridor to do first because the long-haul schedules can outright disappear while all other lines' upgrades have to spend more SGR backlog money to fix stuff that steadies the balance of service layering. But NSRL forces the ultimate conversion dilemma because:

  • 1) the Western Route is the capacity gimp of the 4 northside mains and can't match schedules with any of the southside mains
  • 2) there's a 4-on-2 Indigo mismatch north vs. south. Old Colony (3 branches) and NEC (Amtrak) aren't taking Indigos down south, which leaves only 2 choices left. Riverside and Readville and fully doable for splitting a 3-on-2 pairing, but somebody's going to get the short stick...and it'll be the gimp.
Basically, a mass realignment like huge causes a couple of vexing inequities that don't exist today while nearly all other boats end up boosted by the rising tide. So Reading is the one place that ends up a fish or cut-bait modal decision in that universe. Eating OL Track 3 in Medford isn't enough to boost its mainline capacity; it needs mass grade crossing eliminations to be useful for tunnel slots. And if you're paying for mass grade crossing eliminations in Melrose and Wakefield either way, why electrify Medford twice and spend another kajillion modding every OL station to eat Track 3? Finishing the rapid transit job they originally intented in the 1970's ends up a virtual wash on price, and ends up cleaning up the NSRL mismatches.

Indigo's slam-dunk for a couple decades' transitional era, but Orange fits the Brave New World™ better.
 
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That's a nice sedge of cranes. Or is it a siege of cranes?
 
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Technically, a bunch of Cranes together is a "Herd of Cranes". In this case, it's a "Jackpot of Cranes". :)

Either way... Impressive number of cranes. Maximum crane.
 
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Looks like Dubai without the complete waste of peoples time and labor.
 
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Waiting for the Big Crane to ride phoenix-like from the muck

This project is going to provide a whole lot of interesting construction photos to be taken from a whole lot of points that don't usually see Big Construction
 
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If they build this Vegas style, it will be shocking how quickly it rises from that swamp.
 
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Waiting for the Big Crane to ride phoenix-like from the muck

This project is going to provide a whole lot of interesting construction photos to be taken from a whole lot of points that don't usually see Big Construction

I'm curious to see how this is going to look coming from rt 2. There is a point coming down the hill past Belmont where the Everett power station and schrafft's building are very prominent and straight ahead. Could be quite the view of the shiny hotel from that direction and several other directions.
 
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The Traffic around the area is a fucking mess now on the weekends. I'm not against the casino but where is all the increase in traffic going when this is built?
 
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The Traffic around the area is a fucking mess now on the weekends. I'm not against the casino but where is all the increase in traffic going when this is built?

Well if they tire of sitting in traffic they can always go to the casino.
 
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BRT from Everett to Sullivan would make sense. I wonder if they could add BRT service next to the Commuter Rail line and bring service through Main Street and Broadway in Everett.

It would be perfect if they could make it a one seat ride with separate lanes all the way to downtown but that'll probably never happen. I know that currently the Orange line gets very congested going into the city, it's sometimes hard to get on the train at Sullivan during the morning rush hour.
 
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The Traffic around the area is a fucking mess now on the weekends. I'm not against the casino but where is all the increase in traffic going when this is built?

Improve transit and create more Mystic/Harbor crossings.

The cycling path network is nearing completion, but the biggest hurdles are the need for at least two bridges. It'd also be nice to figure out where these 5 cycling arterials are going once they all converge on Sullivan Sq.
 
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The cycling path network is nearing completion, but the biggest hurdles are the need for at least two bridges. It'd also be nice to figure out where these 5 cycling arterials are going once they all converge on Sullivan Sq.

Sullivan Square is a very dangerous intersection to bike on.

http://www.boston.com/news/local-ne...k-driver-in-sullivan-square-bike-riders-death

http://patch.com/massachusetts/charlestown/police-investigate-serious-motorcycle-crash-charlestown-0
 
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[/URL] It's amazing when you see this from 93 north and how close its to Boston, question will this if successful lead to other highrise development in that area?
 

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