Re: Driven By Customer 'Service' Parte Dos
Brilliant.
Brilliant.
Umm ... buildings in existing median? Do you realize how narrow it is?
Ron, by combining the express/local lanes, the center median will expand (because the divider between those roads will be removed). The T being underground means all that infrastructure also goes away.
More than enough space for a series of buildings, with roads on each side.
You do realize that the entire stretch of Commonwealth Avenue is intended to be parkway even though that the 'park' part of it hasn't really ever gotten much further than a few Olmsted drawings? Having a lovely mall from B.C. to the Public Garden would do wonders for most of Brighton. Assuming access to the Green Line, via underground tunnels, was maintained of course.
It could also be replaced with more of this:
Neither idea would be objectionable to me
MBTA seeks naming rights ride
Takes step toward bidding on stations, transit lines, Web site
By Thomas Grillo
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
The MBTA wants Corporate America to come aboard.
“Our goal is to find as many opportunities that we can to raise revenue to close our budget gap without raising fares,” MBTA General Manager Richard Davey said of plans to sell naming rights to T properties.
Tomorrow is the deadline for consultants to respond to an MBTA request for proposals to sell naming rights for everything from the lines and stations of its subway, bus and commuter rail systems to its Web site and Charlie Cards. So far, 88 consultants have shown interest.
The MBTA is trying to close a budget gap for fiscal year 2013 that is expected to exceed $137 million. T officials are seeking a consultant to determine the feasibility of putting sponsors’ names on its assets and the revenue it could generate for the nation’s oldest subway system.
Davey said he hopes to raise about $250,000 through naming rights.
“That’s the kind of money that we could use to either help close our gap or to improve information on the subway or other creative customer information pieces we have,” he said.
Naming rights are the T’s latest attempt to raise money. It recently launched a Web site offering $22 T-shirts, flip flops for $25, mugs at $13 and a transit token bracelet for $150.
Darlene Lambos, executive director of Community Labor United, a Boston-based advocacy group, praised Davey for thinking outside the box.
“I commend the general manger for devising creative solutions that don’t involve fare hikes,” she said.
While every station is up for grabs, Davey said about a dozen of the most popular will get the most interest, including Park Street, Government Center, Downtown Crossing, Alewife, Harvard, Braintree, Back Bay, Copley, Kenmore, Fenway and Riverside.
The original station names will still be part of the new name, Davey said. “We don’t want to confuse our customers,” he said. “Or have people asking what happened to Alewife?”
Passengers evacuated after MTBA train breakdown
Associated Press
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Dozens of passengers are being evacuated from two six-car trains on the MBTA's Red Line in Cambridge after being stuck on the underground track for about two hours.
MBTA spokeswoman Lydia Rivera the lead train broke down Tuesday morning in the outbound tunnel between Porter Square and Harvard stations. Passengers were escorted to nearby Porter Square.
She did not immediately know how many passengers were involved. No injuries have been reported.
Rivera said the MBTA is busing between Harvard and Alewife stations while power is shut off to the third rail for the evacuation. She said MBTA workers were towing the disabled train out of service.
It will never be as successful as this section of Comm Ave in the Back Bay, though. So it's really just "Ohhh, well... it LOOKS pretty..." since as it is, I generally don't find crowds strolling down the Comm Ave Mall.
Have you folks ever been to this section of comm
ave....?
Im talking about replacing this
And this
with more of this
As the manufacturing and production of 20 new locomotives gets underway, the MBTA is asking the public to help choose a design scheme that reflects a new era in the delivery of
Commuter Rail service. Beginning Tuesday, visitors to www.mbta.com will be presented with three options from which to choose, seen at left. The on-line preference poll will be available for two weeks. The design options will also be on display at North and South Stations.
The MBTA is purchasing a new fleet of twenty diesel-electric passenger locomotives from Motive-Power Incorporated of Boise, Idaho. The $114 million investment represents the MBTA’s first major locomotive procurement in more than 20 years. Employing the industry’s newest technological advances, the locomotives are being designed and built to operate more efficiently, reducing fuel use and emissions while significantly improving performance and reliability. The new locomotives will be in service by 2013.
...I live right off Comm Ave.
I just think given the relatively high density along the corridor, more green space would be better than replacing part of the right of way with buildings.