Equilibria
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I don't think there's going to be any clarity on this particular issue until the ongoing maint facility siting study that just kicked off releases some prelim findings. It's entirely possible the Pike project managers are out-of-sync with the thrust of that ongoing Readville-leaning maint study, since there's been no published updates on prior siting studies in many years. The Pike team may simply be placeholding with old BP site info until the new study is complete. After all, they sure as hell ain't done troubleshooting West's layout or that incomprehensible street grid. Movement towards resolution on the 'throat' stalemate just means something might actually be able to get done before we're dead. I still have less-than-zero confidence that the land will be development-ready before it happens given the incoherence of the grid and continued crickets from Harvard about land usage. And West has not seen its last...much less second- or third-from-last...major design reboot and associated public comment primal screaming if it's still clinging to that pointlessly self-alienating inverted layout vs. the yard.
Given that we heard about this for the first time today, I doubt that the project managers for the Allston project had thought about it. Kind of came across as someone from the T giving it some real thought for the first time, saying "holy sh"! and running down the hall to yell at them.
Also, good luck getting any resolution on anything soon. People's Pike is basically burning Pollack in effigy this evening. We've reached the point of true deadlock: activists are demanding lane reductions. Pollack is pointing out that you'd have to sextuple ridership on the Worcester Line to have it carry the same throughput as SFR.