Java King
Active Member
- Joined
- Apr 6, 2007
- Messages
- 961
- Reaction score
- 1,976
It's really too bad about Plymouth, but the schedule was horrible as other people have mentioned. I just hope the MBTA learns something about Station placement moving forward. Another perfect example is Cohasset. It has a beautiful and vibrant village center, but they chose to build the Greenbush Line station on the edge of town surrounded by a sea of parking lots. There is a new TOD village near the new Cohasset Station, but it can't generate the activity of the village center a few miles down the track.
Plymouth Station was located in a very unwalkable area that used to be a Walmart if I remember correctly. It should have been extended more into the downtown of Plymouth to be viable. However, the MBTA tends to like vast parking lots for new stations and lines rather than the traditional town center or village that has served the system well for over a 100 years. Salem seems to be a good recent example of a renovated station that is located within easy walking of the Village Center but has a new parking garage.
In Hingham, they've built huge solar array canopies over the vast sea of parking lots on the Greenbush line. Now, it's like driving under some abandoned post-apocalyptic science fiction scene when I was at Nantasket Junction on Sunday.
Plymouth Station was located in a very unwalkable area that used to be a Walmart if I remember correctly. It should have been extended more into the downtown of Plymouth to be viable. However, the MBTA tends to like vast parking lots for new stations and lines rather than the traditional town center or village that has served the system well for over a 100 years. Salem seems to be a good recent example of a renovated station that is located within easy walking of the Village Center but has a new parking garage.
In Hingham, they've built huge solar array canopies over the vast sea of parking lots on the Greenbush line. Now, it's like driving under some abandoned post-apocalyptic science fiction scene when I was at Nantasket Junction on Sunday.