dhawkins
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Here is the PDF for Lechmere station. I didn't realize it would be an elevated platform, who knew it was designed the correct way!
STV Inc is the lead designer and a part of "GLX Constructors"Does anyone know the engineering firm which designed (and is presumably building) the GLX?
On November 17, 2017, the MBTA selected GLX Constructors (a consortium of Fluor Enterprises, the Middlesex Corporation, Herzog Contracting Corporation, and Balfour Beatty Infrastructure
A pedestrian overpass is not the solution. Given the Stations island platform, a overpass would triple the amount of stairs to access the platform (from "up" to "up-down-up")
Here is the PDF for Lechmere station. I didn't realize it would be an elevated platform, who knew it was designed the correct way!
Great question. I think:Can someone explain to me the bus loop to nowhere? The 80, 87, and 88 could/should all be eliminated once GLX opens. The primary bus service in this area should just be the 69 and a much needed MBTA route to replace EZride down first street. Potentially also the CT4 concept that will hop over the tracks from Inner Belt. None of those are well served by the bus loop. Maybe the 69 makes sense, but I would argue the 69 ideally would be extended as the route down First to Kendall.
Can someone explain to me the bus loop to nowhere? The 80, 87, and 88 could/should all be eliminated once GLX opens. The primary bus service in this area should just be the 69 and a much needed MBTA route to replace EZride down first street. Potentially also the CT4 concept that will hop over the tracks from Inner Belt. None of those are well served by the bus loop. Maybe the 69 makes sense, but I would argue the 69 ideally would be extended as the route down First to Kendall.
I guess theoretically you could truncate the 87 at Union Square and the 88 at East Somerville, but those buses also take people between Somerville locales and the Target shopping plaza (ex-Milk Square), and Twin City Plaza–which is walkable to Lechmere, but not super close, nor a very nice walk with groceries. Plus a lot of these new stations will not have separated busways due to the constraints of the sites. Absolutely the nature of these buses will change, and in the years after GLX opens the T should consider how to change the buses in Somerville and Medford, but the 87/88 will continue to be needed links between the Red Line and Green Line sides of Somerville and the thousands of riders who live in-between. I'd argue that even the 80 is a needed link between Green Line stations, though it's probably the most likely to be expendable or dramatically rerouted.
3) Local EZ ride / employee shuttles should use it
No escalator, only stairs and an elevator, from what I see in the renderings. An escalator is warranted for this high volume station.
Isn't Lechmere one of the few stations on the line with enough land area to support a large bus loop? A large number of buses terminating at a station takes space, which is lacking along a lot of GLX.I only meant truncate, not eliminate the routes entirely. I think the entirety of Somerville and East Cambridge needs a bus re-plan following GLX. I'll grant that bus service between Union and Twin City Plaza is fairly high-value, but commuters will be switching to GL as soon as possible an not riding all the way to Lechmere. I just don't see Lechmere as a bus hub any longer, so the bus loop seems completely backward looking rather than forward. They've had decades to re-plan the bus routes post-GLX and they seem to not have even started.