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Re: T construction news
As per GLX thread, they'll be doing Phase I too.
As per GLX thread, they'll be doing Phase I too.
Kenmore was a shit show, but they actually do a lot of T work so I have hope. Barletta also did the North Point Park and Ped Bridge.
We're lucky it wasn't the #2 bidder (a successor to Modern Continental who gave us the Back Bay Station with an apparent 12 year useful life). The #2 bidder also keeps going out of business, re-organizing, and somehow getting pre-qualified again. The latest time they got an Italian company to come in and inject a bunch of money.
Aside: The notion of Phase I of the GLX is so silly. It's like and $800M project and the first couple bridge adjustments cost something like $20M. But DOT wants to be able to say they've started GLX so they call it Phase I.
Who ever heard of a 2-phase project that is split 2%/98% between phases?
Anyone else think the MBTA and Feds/VA should do a land swap? The Heath St loop should trace the edge of the parking lot, allowing for a much longer platform. They could then run 3-trolley trains on the E Line. And the VA then has two buildable (actually, the small one might not be) plots combined into one larger one.
Heath fits 3-cars on either platform. Google Satellite caught 2 back-to-back deuces in the act crammed on the smaller inner loop: http://goo.gl/maps/0hDVq. Outer loop can fit a 3 and a 2 back-to-back.
The only reason the T says triplets can't run there is that street-running track is *inherently* so fragile that the weight of just one more car will literally collapse the street and send the train plunging straight into the earth's core.
What's the plan for when GLX opens and E trains are running 3-cars to Somerville?
Heath fits 3-cars on either platform. Google Satellite caught 2 back-to-back deuces in the act crammed on the smaller inner loop: http://goo.gl/maps/0hDVq. Outer loop can fit a 3 and a 2 back-to-back.
The only reason the T says triplets can't run there is that street-running track is *inherently* so fragile that the weight of just one more car will literally collapse the street and send the train plunging straight into the earth's core.
I'm confused. That image clearly shows the inner loop being just barely enough for a two-car set. So how can a three-car fit on either track? I'm not sure it would even fit on the outter one.
$37 million only buys about 8 feet of sheltered waiting area?
You guys don't realize how good we have it... they didn't block the potential to re-add the leg of the wye which goes from the tunnel to the Peabody Branch directly. THIS IS BIG. I mean, the MBTA DIDN'T FUCK UP A FUTURE POSSIBILITY! JESUS FUCKING CHRIST! THINKING AHEAD!!!!!
Just wait. They'll scramble to put a utility room there as soon as they can.