Green Line Inner Ring

[stick n move]

I was looking on google maps trying to find an easy way to create an inner ring utilizing light rail on existing medians roads and bridges and came up with this. I will try to post pictures or a video later. This could create a one seat ride from Mattapan to Somerville.

* Get rid of the heath street turnaround and extend further down heath street
* Turn onto columbus ave following the center median stopping at jackson square * Keep following columbus ave with a station at washingon st
* Continue on to seaver st with a stop at humboldt ave
* Turn onto blue hill ave stopping at columbia rd, talbot ave, morton st (able to walk to morton st future indigo line)
* Stop at the library
* Stop at woodhaven st to link to a new indigo line station
* Continue further down blue hill ave and finally turning and connecting to the mattapan high speed line tracks.
* Utilize the Mattapan high speed line tracks until the stop connected with ashmont red line.

 

[citylover94]

Your post inspired me to map three options for providing a radial linkage and serving the blue hill ave corridor. One option is dependent on a major expansion to the green line and is a crazy pitch the other is just a variation of your idea.

https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=z-P0elakuhEs.kZQF5lkBrxjI&usp=sharing

I see option A as desirable in a full build mostly because it is in a reservation the whole trip although it is a little indirect. Option B I see as slightly less desirable because it involves street running and in a lot of ways is equivalent to option C.

 

[George_Apley]

Let's divert discussion here: Green Line Reconfiguration