General MBTA Topics (Multi Modal, Budget, MassDOT)

Subdivisions said:
I know its old news that the T doesn't update its maps. But come on, you took the time to put on a sticker to show the new Silver Line service to Chelsea. You couldn't have just made a larger sticker to show that one of your main interchange stations (Gov't Cntr) is indeed open for business? That Assembly is up and running? Pure laziness
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And, generally speaking, those stickers applied to the outside of the protective plastic look horrible and sometimes don't line up with the route lines...they are an embarrassment when out-of-towners look at our maps.
 
jass said:
Las Vegas Monorail does, but it costs like $7 a ride and relies on tourists
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I guess - I just really don't consider that in the same realms as city wide mass transit/subway systems.
 
The whole map needs replacing:
- Show Silver Line Gateway
- Show Assembly as open (not "Opens Fall 2014")
- Show Govt Center as open
- Show Wollaston "reopens Summer 2019"
- Show/Foreshadow B-Line consolidation work (St Paul+BUWest; Babcock+Pleasant)
- Show bus 104 109 on the Everett Broadway BRT*
- Show GLX as under construction (grey it out, like WMATA did/does)

And
- isn't the Chelsea CR stop moving to Market Basket?

*This is the old "Key Corridor" getting no love from the "Key Bus" lens.
 
Crazy idea: Put the ‘closed station’ information on the stickers, rather than the other way around.
 
DominusNovus said:
Crazy idea: Put the ‘closed station’ information on the stickers, rather than the other way around.
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Government Center was shown as closed on the 2014 maps because the new spider map was rolled out during the 2 year GC shutdown. They have since shown closed stations with stickers (see: Wollaston closure).
 
DominusNovus said:
Crazy idea: Put the ‘closed station’ information on the stickers, rather than the other way around.
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Crazier idea: start looking into and rolling out LCD/screens that can be easily updated whenever anything changes in real time.
 
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Even crazier;

Have it announced on each line's train cars! Hah!!
 
Unrelated question: does the T have soecific plans/schedule for turning at-grade commuter rail crossings into overpasses/underpasses?
 
DominusNovus said:
Unrelated question: does the T have specific plans/schedule for turning at-grade commuter rail crossings into overpasses/underpasses?
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There's no system-wide effort that I'm aware of, and I doubt there'd be the business case for such an effort.

For the same kind of money, I think you'd electrify (so you could more quicky "do" 79 or 90mph), and spend $2m per crossing for quad gates (and no horn) before you got to the serious grade separation.

On some lines (like the Keystone Corridor in PA) grade crossing / grade separation plans are usually part of some larger long-term effort to raise speeds above 110 (where the rules are restrictive) or 125mph (where elimination is required). (PA eliminated their last public crossing between Harrisburg & Philly in 2014 but still haven't raised speeds above 110)

And crossing elimination is (now) required for rapid transit: you definitely hear about crossing-elimination for rapid transit extensions and fantasy maps: the T doesn't want any crossings of its rapid transit if it ever gets extended (it makes the Saugus branch unattractive as a "beyond Lynn" option for the Blue Line, for example)

We frequently talk about crossings because at some point increased frequencies will tip things into needing separation (like West Medford) mostly as a political thing (locals complaining that trains ruin their car commute)

For now the speed-and-safety priorities are:
Quad Gates / No Horn Zones (a big flurry a couple of years ago when the rules changed)
Positive Train Control (PTC) (now being built)
Electrification (proposed by advocates)
 
Outside of a few specific cases (West Medford, Framingham, the Chelsea/Everett cluster, Park Street in Somerville, North Wilmington), the T doesn't have a huge number of grade crossings that really impede operations or frequently cause accidents. Better to pursue elimination of those few, and otherwise it's not a high priority.
 
Double tracking the Fitchburg Line through Waltham would require an elimination of the Moody’s Street grade Crossing, right?
 
The T doesn't have a huge grade crossing dilemma because NYNH&H and Boston & Albany invested huge in crossing eliminations shortly after the turn of the 20th century. Every single mainline coming out of South Station is 100% grade-separated inside of Route 128, and 100% separated before its first major line split.

So...

  • Worcester: 1st crossing at Framingham Jct. (uneliminable)
  • Franklin: 1st crossing at Norwood Depot station.
  • Stoughton: 1st crossing at Canton Center station.
  • Middleboro: 1st crossing past Braintree Jct. split.
  • Plymouth: 1st crossing past Braintree Jct. split.
  • Greenbush: 1st crossing past East Braintree Jct. split, past split of Fore River Branch.
  • Needham: 1st crossing well past Needham Jct. split.
  • Fairmount: 100% separated.
  • NEC: 100% separated to Stonington, CT.
...and that even projects further when you go for legacy lines:

  • NEC: 1st crossing was in Sharon well after Canton Jct. split until early-90's high-speed eliminations cleared out all remaining MA crossings.
  • Riverside Line: 100% separated during pre-1958 commuter rail era.
  • Millis/West Medway: 1st crossing was well west of Needham Jct.
  • Dedham Branch 1: 100% grade separated Readville-Dedham Ctr.
  • Dedham Branch 2: 1st crossing south of W. Roxbury Jct.
Northside had substantial eliminations done in the 1940's and 1950's by B&M. They eliminated a half-dozen crossings on the Lowell Line, leaving only the tricky West Medford pair. Several on the Eastern Route north of Chelsea, several on the Western Route from Medford to Reading, several on the Fitchburg Line in Somerville, Belmont, and Waltham. They simply hit bankruptcy before they could narrow the list down to closeouts. And the only reason the Chelsea cluster on the Eastern Route has lasted as long as it is is because the Somerville-Chelsea segment used to be a co-ownership of B&M and B&A with each RR taking 2 of the 4 tracks; they could never agree on cost splits for separating Chelsea.


Contrast that with the crossing hell on LIRR (quasi-independent RR from Day 1), and all manner of commuter rail systems outside of the northeastern NY Central/Pennsylvania/NYNH&H axis where eliminations were never prioritized (sometimes not even near the big CBD terminals), and we're sitting pretty.

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The only ones that are high-priority eliminations on the Purple Line are:

  • Eastern Ave., Chelsea (Eastern Route main) -- Source of painful speed restriction between Chelsea and Lynn, dangerous angled crossing on road with lots of speeding gas tanker traffic. #1 most recommended elimination on system. Proposed for $19M (2004 $$$) road-over-rail elimination in 2004 North Shore Transit Improvements scoping study; no action to-date.

  • Chelsea cluster (Eastern Route main) -- 2nd St., 3rd St., Everett Ave., Spruce St., 6th & Arlington St.'s. Required if Urban Ring ever happens.
    • Conceptual plans now to close 6th/Arlington in favor of compact ped underpass or (if money short) ped-only crossing to eventually be separated into underpass when future funding allows. No recent updates, but the underpass renders looked really good so hope this happens.
    • 3rd has long been proposed for outright block-off because it's a superfluous road that messes with engineer sightlines being so close to 2nd, but Peter Pan Buses wields its lobbying power to keep that open as their de facto back-driveway shortcut. Stay tuned as construction wraps on relocated CR station; they can literally drop the jersey barriers across 3rd at any time by local fiat if the rabble gets appeased.
    • Everett just got tons more difficult to ever eliminate with the Silver Line construction. However, not nearly as big a train safety concern anymore because of the relocated station stop. More a concern of road traffic eventually getting untenable, but they should've thought of that before building SL3. Still feasible, but messier/more expensive/more disruptive now. Probably the very last one to go, and not before Urban Ring LRT comes to town.
    • Spruce can potentially go sooner if MassHighway decides to re-hook the US1 onramp away from residential Arlington St. and plug into Spruce instead.
    • 2nd a least-concern for now since SL3 can't continue west on the ROW without running smack into Everett Terminal and requiring flyover ramps to change sides of the ROW. Easily eliminable when real Urban Ring construction pushes west.

  • Main St. & Cherry St. pair, Ashland (Worcester Line) -- Heavy commuter and freight traffic through heart of downtown. Eventually will be required for full-blown Worcester + Inland Route service increases. Rail-over-road @ Main, half-and-half rail incline + road dip @ Cherry. Fed $$$ may be available for this job since can be tied to Amtrak route and freight funding sources.

  • MA 60 & Canal St. pair, Medford (Lowell Line) -- Highly disruptive for both train & traffic, but also most expensive of the top-priority eliminations so probably will linger until NSRL or other mega service increases force the issue. Rail cut under Main, half-and-half road incline + rail dip @ Canal. Will need to be 4-track width to future-proof future GLX extension from Route 16, 19'6" overhead clearance for freight under future electrification. Very messy and hugely expensive so much longer-term priority...but benefits are obvious.

  • MA 138, Raynham (South Coast Rail, Stoughton alignment) -- Only officially proposed elimination on SCR other than superfluous closures of some private driveways that've popped up since abandonment. Near I-495, double-track rail-over-road structure on angle. Was the worst crossing by far on the route pre-1959, so non-negotiable separation.
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These are major P.I.T.A. crossings that are uneliminable for structural reasons:

  • Framingham Jct. @ MA 126, Bishop St., MA 135 (Worcester Line + Framingham Secondary) -- Can't change level of complex and mission-critical 4-way rail junction, and downtown is criscrossed by underground aqueducts making changing road/rail levels difficult to impossible.
    • MassHighway has unfunded proposal (since punted off most actionable long-range planning lists) to sink 135 into a duck-under of 126 at the intersection...which will defray the worst of the car queue backups onto the tracks. Doesn't end up eliminating any crossings, but VERY worthwhile for road traffic and overall safety. Politically charged project, but needs to get brought out of mothballs and put back on the priority list.
    • CSX North Yard on the shores of Farm Pond is a highly coveted piece of real estate for downtown redev (specifically proposals for plunking some FSU buildings there), and is the noisiest/smelliest/most invasive of the 3 yards to downtown abutters. CSX has a bigger yard south of 135 ("CP Yard", accessed by the westerly 135 grade crossing and southerly 126 grade crossing) that's presently unused except for temp storage of empties since the auto unloading facility there closed 10 years ago. CSX has stated it's willing to sell North Yard to the state if they pay the company's ransom price for the land and funds "pimp my yard" upgrades to CP Yard to absorb all North functions. That could also be impetus for ^^MassHighway^^ to get a move on the 135-under-126 underpass. There'd be a few more yard-to-yard freight moves over the crossings, but at negligible effect since those happen mostly off-peak and the traffic layout would be worlds better.

  • Elm & Moody St.'s pair, Waltham (Fitchburg Line) -- Adjacent Jackson St. overpass prevents raising tracks, Charles River floodplain prevents sinking tracks.
    • Substantial improvements are VERY realistic to do by eliminating the too-short mid-block platform entirely, doing the double-track infill, and constructing a new inbound platform across from the existing full-length platform west of Moody. Elm crossing will no longer be fouled by trains overspilling the mid-block platform and will stay gates-up during station stops. Having regulation 800-foot platforms will allow DTMF switches to keep the Moody gates open during station stops.
    • Possible option to also open the unnamed back alley spanning Moody & Elm next to the river to thru traffic (even if only wide enough for a one-way). Would complement Carter St. by giving both sides of the tracks a cross-block detour for traffic queues when gates are down. That alley used to be blocked by the Bemis Branch freight tracks along the Elm sidewalk, but now that that branchline is long gone and the Charles Greenway rail trail has been constructed on an alternate river-crossing alignment they're free to punch the alley out to Elm for thru traffic.

  • Main St./Broadway + Mass Ave., Cambridge (Grand Junction Branch) -- MIT air rights overhang @ Main, plus lack of enough room to incline @ Mass & Broadway. NOTE: Mass Ave. is only a constriction on RR mode; light rail can incline-up much steeper than mainline rail, so that bad crossing can definitely go in an Urban Ring conversion. Main still can't because of building above and Red Line below, and Broadway would be a close shave...and possibly a painful trolley slow zone because of brake-test factors between steep Broadway incline and Main crossing. Broadway needs full engineering work-up to determine if that's ops-feasible; could go either way.
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These are some random ones that can be outright closed/blocked-off at no inconvenience for cheap or free. None of them are all that traffic-consequential, however. And many of them stuck around after prior attempts at closure because of community opposition that didn't have high-enough stakes to keep fighting for. So these would be more about applying pressure to close some safety loopholes, and paring some maint costs for maintaining crossing equipment.

  • 3rd St., Chelsea (Eastern Route main) -- As above re: Chelsea cluster.

  • Binney St. & 2 Vassar St. ped crossings, Cambridge (Grand Junction Branch) -- Superfluous closures if any passenger traffic uses the branch.

  • Congress St., Beverly (Eastern Route main) -- Beverly Draw approach ("Homeland Security and blah blah blah").

  • Spring St., Montserrat Station, Beverly (Rockport Line) -- Closure needed if upgrading Montserrat to regulation 800 ft. full-high platforms.

  • Pooles Ln., Rockport (Rockport Line) -- Officially proposed w/ rebuild of Rockport Station + Rockport layover to create room for 800 ft. full-high platforms and expanded layover tracks. NIMBY's torpedoed proposal, no further action. Layover project badly needed, but good luck trying to deal with that town.

  • Cedar St. & Willow St., Gloucester (Rockport Line) -- Blind curve, extremely dangerous despite low traffic. Town consistently opposed, so remains couple of the most dangerous crossings on system for peds.

  • (various others, Rockport Line) -- Several other superfluous low-traffic candidate crossings to block off, many of them with very poor sightlines because of rinky-dink town road maintenance. Beverly, Gloucester, Manchester NIMBY's have blocked any/all attempts at closure ever since the B&M era. Probably not a battle worth waging since none of these are major traffic issues...just NIMBY's who want the freeeeeeedumb to die for their residential shortcuts.

  • N. Main St., North Andover (Haverhill Line) -- Fully superfluous.

  • New Crossing Rd., Reading (Haverhill/Reading Line) -- If access road can be punched to Ash St. for buildings south of crossing. May be needed if T upgrades Reading layover (3-track segment) for "Indigo" short-turn service train storage.

  • Private driveway, Braintree (Middleboro Line) -- Old factory crossing between Braintree Jct., Plain St. crossing. Pretty sure this abandoned building is slated for demolition and alt. access to the parcel is available from the other side. Stay tuned.

  • 2 private driveways, Wilmington (Lowell Line) -- 1 just north, 1 just south of Wilmington Station...warehouse delivery trucks. Northern one has alt. access to MA 60. Southern one can reinstate derelict driveway to Butters Row now that narrow/underweight bridge over tracks is being slated for replacement with modern structure.

  • Private driveway, Grafton (Worcester Line) -- Parmenter Rd., power line access. This might already be closed or slated for closure.

  • Groton-Harvard Rd. OR Sandy Pond Rd. OR Snake Hill Rd., Ayer (Fitchburg Line) -- Sandy Pond probably the most superfluous; worth keeping other two if that's the pick.

  • Walker Rd., Shirley (Fitchburg Line) -- Poor sightlines. Re-route street over power line dirt driveway to Patterson Rd.

  • Center Rd. OR Davis St. OR Phoenix St., Shirley (Fitchburg Line) -- Davis the most superfluous; keep other 2 if eliminating.
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Eliminations contingent on other projects not yet greenlit:

  • Wotton St., N. Chelmsford & private farm crossing, Tyngsboro (Lowell Line) -- Officially proposed superfluous closures if CR extended to Nashua.

  • 3 private crossings, Wilbraham (B&A / Amtrak Inland Route) -- Possible closures of all 3 with access road to Dollar Ave. Depends on final design for Inland Route upgrades. Only other crossings Worcester-Springfield are 2 uneliminable farm tractor crossings in Brookfield and Palmer.

  • Central Ave. & Capen St., Milton (Mattapan High Speed Line) -- Rail-over-road bridges if trolley converted to Red Line-Ashmont HRT extension. Stops at each likely eliminated for consolidation @ Milton & Mattapan.

  • Oak Island Rd., Revere -- 4-track rail-over-road ONLY on the BLX-Lynn evaluation alignment that jumps across Diamond Creek to Eastern Route ROW immediately after Wonderland. Any other alignments that jump to the Eastern ROW after Oak Island Park to avoid the creek wetlands or continue through Point of Pines don't require any touches to this minor crossing.

  • Park St., Somerville (Fitchburg Line) -- If GLX-Union extended to Porter, road-over-rail bridge necessary for LRT traffic increase.

  • Chelsea cluster, all (Eastern Route) -- 2nd/3rd/Spruce/6th/Arlington all must go if Urban Ring BRT/LRT built. Everett Ave. negotiable because of difficulty level, but complete elimination desirable.

  • Mass Ave., etc. (Grand Junction Branch) -- Mandatory for Urban Ring BRT/LRT. Main St. uneliminable, Broadway TBD based on engineering/ops constraints. Cambridge St., Medford St. negotiable on funds. Binney St. and 2 Vassar St. ped crossings superfluous closures. Fort Washington Park ped crossing probably folded into Cambridgeport Station design.

  • W. Wyoming Ave., W. Foster St., W. Emerson St., Franklin St., Melrose + Greenwood St., Forest St., Broadway St., Albion St., Chestnut St., Church St., Wakefield + New Crossing Rd., Ash St., Main St., Washington St., Woburn St., Reading -- 15 crossings eliminated for Orange Line-Reading extension. New Crossing Rd. probable closure w/ driveway relocation, Ash St. probable closure w/ intersection re-shaping, Broadway St. road-over-rail bridge. Other 12 require changing rail level to Oak Grove-style cut or Malden-style viaduct (all feasible). Note that some but not all of these crossings will need similar elimination for Regional Rail at RR grades (i.e. extra $$$ per crossing) if inner Western Route upgraded to handle NSRL mainline throughput. Costs for partial RR elimination vs. total OL elimination start to converge the more crossings you target for Regional Rail (enough that Alon Levy's cost estimates favor doing Orange vs. doing Regional Rail).

  • MA 9 & Salem End Rd., Framingham (Fitchburg Secondary) -- For Northborough/Clinton commuter rail branching in MetroWest. Rail-over-road bridge of 9 + poss. re-shaping + half-and-half rise/dip @ Salem End Rd. Extremely dangerous 9 crossing was never eliminated because the 2004-abandoned but once very busy Framingham & Lowell line used to junction about 600 ft. north of the crossing preventing any easy change to the rail elevation. Separation now a no-brainer, but would require presence of passenger traffic since 1 daily freight round-trip per not nearly enough to matter.
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...and one freight-only one driven by real estate coattails:

  • Meadowcroft St., Lowell (Pan Am Mainline, Lowell Branch) -- Last RR grade crossing in City of Lowell, heavy 24/7 freight traffic. There's abandoned abutments over Meadowcroft 200 ft. north of the crossing where the ex- Salem & Lowell ROW used to pass before B&M consolidated its Lowell routes. MassDOT acquired the 2 abandoned Lowell freight yards bordering Meadowcroft in the GLX land swap deal with Pan Am, and they are ripe redev targets once they're environmentally cleaned up. About 1400 ft. of Lowell Branch rail relocation onto the ex- S&L ROW a few feet north with a new rail bridge over Meadowcroft ends up freeing up another 250M sq. ft. of redev space adjacent to those new state-owned yards. So when this real estate is ready to go to market, its value gets maxed out if they do the relatively low-cost and non-invasive relocation of the Lowell Branch tracks + (serendipitous) crossing elimination.
 
Here's a town-by-town listing of FRA grade crossings inside 128. Doesn't include light rail, station ped crossings from one platform to another, or any undocumented/makeshift pedestrian crossings not on the FRA list. Crossings that are out-of-service but non-abandoned are grayed out.

Mainline crossings > branchline > non-passenger lines in importance. Public road crossings > private road/driveway crossings & public pedestrian crossings by a wide margin. Rules for crossing protection for private/ped crossings a great grey area nationally, but on T passenger lines nearly all such official private & ped crossings have full warning gates (exceptions exist across system, but generally are few/far between).

Note that none of the 128-land non-passenger crossings on the list have consequential train traffic (e.g. more than 1-4 train movements per day) on them with the lone exception of Widett Circle Loop, used 24/7 by T/Amtrak. Grand Junction and Peabody Branch are the only such lines with viable studied passenger proposals.

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No active RR's
Arlington, Burlington, Danvers, Hull, Lexington, Lynnfield, Marblehead, Milton, Nahant, Saugus, Stoneham, Watertown, Winthrop

Fully grade separated
Brookline (Worcester Line), Dedham (Franklin Line), Lynn (Newburyport/Rockport Line), Malden (Haverhill/Reading Line), Newton (Worcester Line), Swampscott (Newburyport/Rockport Line), Wellesley (Worcester Line), Woburn (Lowell Line)

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BELMONT (1 active public road crossing: 1 mainline)

  • Blanchard Rd. (Fitchburg Line)
BEVERLY (17 active public road crossings: 1 mainline + 16 branchline)

  • Congress St. (Newburyport/Rockport Line)
  • MA 62 (Newburyport Line)
  • Balch St. (Newburyport Line)
  • MA 1A (Newburyport Line)
  • Tozer Rd. (Newburyport Line)
  • Dodge St. @ N. Beverly Station (Newburyport Line)
  • MA 62 (Rockport Line)
  • MA 1A (Rockport Line)
  • Spring St. @ Montserrat Station (Rockport Line)
  • Essex St. @ Montserrat Station (Rockport Line)
  • Boyles St. (Rockport Line)
  • Thissel St. (#1) (Rockport Line)
  • Thissel St. (#2) @ Prides Crossing Station (Rockport Line)
  • MA 127 (#1) @ Prides Crossing Station (Rockport Line)
  • (private) residential driveway @ MA 127/Hale St. (Rockport Line)
  • MA 127 (#2) @ Beverly Farms Station (Rockport Line)
  • Beach St. (Rockport Line)
  • MA 127 (#3) (Rockport Line)
BOSTON (1 active public road crossing: non-passenger)

  • Widett Circle Rd. (T/Amtrak Widett Circle loop track)
  • Cypher St. + (private) BCEC driveway + Pumphouse Rd. (MassDOT Track 61, temp. out-of-service for Red Line test track)
  • Drydock Ave./Black Falcon Ave. + (private) Design Center driveways (multiple) + Design Center Pl. + Black Falcon Ave. (#2) (Massport Black Falcon spur, out-of-service since 200[6?])
  • (private) D St. Ext. + MA 99 (Rutherford Ave.) x2 + Main St. + (private) driveways x3 (Massport Mystic Wharf Branch, out-of-service 20+ yrs.)
BRAINTREE (7 active public road crossings: 4 passenger, 3 non-passenger; 0 mainline, 4 branchline)
  • (ped) Braintree Station (Old Colony Mainline + Braintree Freight Yard)
  • (private) driveway (Middleboro Line)
  • Plain St. (Middleboro Line)
  • John Mahar Highway (Plymouth Line)
  • Grove St. (Plymouth Line)
  • Commercial St. (Greenbush Line)
  • Adams St. (Fore River Branch)
  • Elm St. (Fore River Branch)
  • Commercial St. (Fore River Branch)
CAMBRIDGE (6 active public road crossings: 1 passenger, 5 non-passenger; 1 mainline)

  • Sherman St. (Fitchburg Line)
  • (ped) Ft. Washington Park (Grand Junction Branch)
  • (ped) Pacific St./Vassar St. (Grand Junction Branch)
  • Mass Ave. (Grand Junction Branch)
  • (ped) Albany St./Vassar St. (Grand Junction Branch)
  • Main St. (Grand Junction Branch)
  • Broadway (Grand Junction Branch)
  • Binney St. (Grand Junction Branch)
  • Cambridge St. (Grand Junction Branch)
CANTON (3 active public road crossings: 0 mainline, 3 branchline)

  • Washington St. @ Canton Ctr. Station (Stoughton Line)
  • Pine St. (Stoughton Line)
  • Will Dr. (Stoughton Line)
CHELSEA (6 active public road crossings: 6 mainline)
  • 2nd St. (Newburyport/Rockport Line)
  • 3rd St. (Newburyport/Rockport Line)
  • Everett Ave. @ "new" Chelsea Station (Newburyport/Rockport Line)
  • Spruce St. (Newburyport/Rockport Line)
  • 6th St./Arlington St. @ "old" Chelsea Station (Newburyport/Rockport Line)
  • Eastern Ave. (Newburyport/Rockport Line)
EVERETT (1 active public road crossing: non-passenger)

  • Beacham St. (Everett Terminal Running Track)
  • (private) Behen St. (Everett Terminal Running Track)
  • (private) Commercial St. (Everett Terminal Running Track)
MEDFORD (2 active public road crossings: 2 mainline)

  • Canal St. (Lowell Line)
  • MA 60 (High St.) @ W. Medford Station (Lowell Line)
  • Middlesex Ave. (Pan Am Medford Industrial Track, out-of-service since 2010)
MELROSE (4 active public road crossings: 4 mainline)

  • W. Wyoming Ave. @ Wyoming Hill Station (Haverhill/Reading Line)
  • W. Foster St. (Haverhill/Reading Line)
  • W. Emerson St. @ Cedar Park Station (Haverhill/Reading Line)
  • Franklin St. @ Melrose Highlands Station (Haverhill/Reading Line)
NEEDHAM (5 active public road crossings: 0 mainline, 5 branchline)

  • (ped/private) Needham Golf Club @ Hersey Station (Needham Line)
  • Oak St. (Needham Line)
  • MA 135 (Great Plain Ave.) @ Needham Ctr. Station (Needham Line)
  • May St. @ Needham Ctr. Station (Needham Line)
  • Rosemary St. (Needham Line)
  • West St. @ Needham Heights Station (Needham Line)
PEABODY (9 active public road crossings: non-passenger)
  • Grove St. (Peabody Branch)
  • Howley St. (Peabody Branch)
  • Caller St. (Peabody Branch)
  • Wallis St. (Peabody Branch)
  • Central St./Peabody Sq. (Pan Am South Peabody Branch)
  • Lowell St./Peabody Sq. (Pan Am South Peabody Branch)
  • Church St. (Pan Am South Peabody Branch)
  • Franklin St. (Pan Am South Peabody Branch)
  • (private) Rousselot Gelatin driveway (Pan Am South Peabody Branch)
  • Allens Ln. (Pan Am South Peabody Branch)
  • Summit St. + Corwin St. + 1st Ave. (Pan Am South Peabody Branch, out-of-service 20+ yrs.)
QUINCY (2 active public road crossings: non-passenger)
  • (private) driveway (Fore River Branch)
  • W. Howard St. (Fore River Branch)
  • MA 53 (Quincy Ave.) (Fore River Branch)
  • (private) Quincy Shipyard driveways (multiple) (Fore River Branch)
  • (private) Wharf St./Quincy Shipyard (Fore River Branch)
RANDOLPH (0 active crossings)
  • (private) Teed Dr. driveway (Randolph Industrial Track, out-of-service since 2017)
READING (6 active public road crossings: 6 mainline)

  • New Crossing Rd. (Haverhill/Reading Line)
  • Ash St. (Haverhill/Reading Line)
  • MA 28 (Main St.) (Haverhill/Reading Line)
  • Washington St. @ Reading Station (Haverhill/Reading Line)
  • Woburn St. @ Reading Station (Haverhill/Reading Line)
  • Willow St. (Haverhill Line)
REVERE (1 active public road crossing: 1 mainline)

  • Oak Island Rd. (Newburyport/Rockport Line)
  • Railroad St. (East Boston Branch, out-of-service 20+ yrs.)
SALEM (1 active public road crossing: non-passenger)

  • (ped) Salem Station (Peabody Branch north wye)
  • (private) Salem Station driveway (Peabody Branch south wye, no rails/out-of-service since 1988, reserved for future use)
  • ("unofficial" ped) path from Bridge St. (Peabody Branch)
  • Flint St. (Peabody Branch)
SOMERVILLE (2 active public road crossings: 1 passenger, 1 non-passenger; 1 mainline)

  • Park St. (Fitchburg Line)
  • Medford St. (Grand Junction Branch)
  • (private) 3rd Ave. (Brickbottom freight tracks)
  • (private) New Washington St. + Innerbelt Rd. ("4th Iron" freight tracks, temp. out-of-service for GLX construction + track rehab)
WAKEFIELD (6 active public road crossings: 6 mainline)

  • Greenwood St. @ Greenwood Station (Haverhill/Reading Line)
  • Forest St. @ Greenwood Station (Haverhill/Reading Line)
  • Broadway St. (Haverhill/Reading Line)
  • Albion St. @ Wakefield Station (Haverhill/Reading Line)
  • Chestnut St. @ Wakefield Station (Haverhill/Reading Line)
  • Prospect St. (Haverhill/Reading Line)
WALTHAM (4 active public road crossings: 4 mainline)

  • Beaver St. (Fitchburg Line)
  • Elm St. @ Waltham Station (Fitchburg Line)
  • Moody St. @ Waltham Station (Fitchburg Line)
  • South St. @ Brandeis/Roberts Station (Fitchburg Line)
WESTON (3 active public road crossings: 3 mainline)

  • Church St. @ Kendal Green Station (Fitchburg Line)
  • Viles St. @ Hastings Station (Fitchburg Line)
  • Conant Rd. (Fitchburg Line)
WESTWOOD (1 active public road crossing: non-passenger)

  • (private) Dartmouth St. driveway (Westwood Industrial Track)
  • University Ave. (Westwood Industrial Track)
  • (private) driveway (Westwood Industrial Track)
WEYMOUTH (8 active public road crossings: 0 mainline, 8 branchline)

  • Commercial St. (#1) (Greenbush Line)
  • Unicorn Ave. (Greenbush Line)
  • East St. (Greenbush Line)
  • Wharf St. @ East Weymouth Station (Greenbush Line)
  • Commercial St. (#2) (Greenbush Line)
  • Randolph St. (Plymouth Line)
  • Derby St./Pond St. (Plymouth Line)
  • Trotter Rd. @ South Weymouth Station (Plymouth Line)
WILMINGTON (9 active public road crossings: 5 mainline, 4 branchline + Amtrak)

  • (private) driveway @ MA 38/MA 129 (Lowell Line)
  • (private) driveway @ MA 38/Middlesex Ave. (Lowell Line)
  • MA 38 (Main St.) (Wildcat Branch)
  • Clark St. (Wildcat Branch)
  • Glen Rd. (Wildcat Branch)
  • Salem St. (Wildcat Branch)
  • Kilmarnock St. (Haverhill Line)
  • Woburn St. (Haverhill Line)
  • Concord St. (Haverhill Line)
  • MA 62 (Middlesex Ave.) @ N. Wilmington Station (Haverhill Line)
  • Salem St. (Haverhill Line)
  • Eames St. (Pan Am Woburn Loop Industrial Track, out-of-service since 2017)
  • Woburn St. + Industrial Way (Wilmington Cold Storage Industrial Track, out-of-service since 201[2?])
WINCHESTER (0 active crossings)

  • Holton St. (Montvale Yard spur, out-of-service 20+ yrs.)
 
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