MBTA Construction Projects

as02143 said:
Chinatown, Downtown Crossing, State are fairly well integrated into their adjacent buildings. It would be nice to be able to get expansions where feasible elsewhere though.
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FWIW, many other cities (especially outside of the US) frequently build direct underground walkways between station exits and the basement levels of nearby developments, avoiding the need to reach the ground level altogether. When I was in Singapore, it was common for shopping malls in neighborhood centers to have their basements connected to subway stations, even well outside of the city center.

While some of these integrations occur at the planning stage with the station and adjacent buildings being planned together, many others are not: new buildings would often include walkways to exits of much older transit stations.
 
Teban54 said:
FWIW, many other cities (especially outside of the US) frequently build direct underground walkways between station exits and the basement levels of nearby developments, avoiding the need to reach the ground level altogether. When I was in Singapore, it was common for shopping malls in neighborhood centers to have their basements connected to subway stations, even well outside of the city center.

While some of these integrations occur at the planning stage with the station and adjacent buildings being planned together, many others are not: new buildings would often include walkways to exits of much older transit stations.
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I’d love to see this connection between North Station and the Star Market that is underground there. The parking garage is probably in the way though.
 
RandomWalk said:
I want to see more integration between subway stations and adjacent buildings. For example, renewing the connections between Downtown Crossing and the commercial spaces adjoining the shopping arcade. Incorporating entries into buildings instead of dumping patrons directly in the middle of the sidewalk.
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Is nice, in foul weather, to go from the red line right into Roche...
 
Agreed. Though many similarly designed and historical systems do not have such integrated things from the get. It's often as part of redevelopment that these underground walkways are added.
 
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Does anyone know if theres ever been an official study or proposal for an infill red line station after savin hill around morrissey blvd/neoponset? I know its been mentioned a couple times on here that it would be a nice addition, but I cant find anything on google or archboston about a real proposal. Is there somewhere on this forum its been talked about in detail as well I couldnt really find anything?
 
stick n move said:
Does anyone know if theres ever been an official study or proposal for an infill red line station after savin hill around morrissey blvd/neoponset? I know its been mentioned a couple times on here that it would be a nice addition, but I cant find anything on google or archboston about a real proposal. Is there somewhere on this forum its been talked about in detail as well I couldnt really find anything?
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Not that I'm aware of at least. The 1945 BERy map that includes the Braintree branch doesn't have a station at Neponset, although it does feature one at Atlantic.
 
I believe it was being considered in the initial scoping for Go Boston 2030 plan from the City, but didn't make the cut for the final report (Orange +1 to Rozzie Sq. did, though) because there were too many future-TOD dependencies that weren't totally under the city's planning thumb. It's definitely been subject to at least one significant-size citizens' petition to the Mayor during the Walsh administration, so it is on the cusp of public imagination. I would imagine there needs to be a more substantial focus on TOD and traffic calming on that auto-scuzz stretch of Morrissey Blvd. to frame the debate, because once you start greenlighting more dense redev there the rail access and associated transit station void really screams out in that part of the neighborhood. They're not quite there yet, as that parking moonscape of a Floor & Decor plaza + the Herb Chambers Honda dealership across the street still blight the would-be station-surrounding landscape like a little slice of Saugus inside the city. But I suspect the pressure will be mounting over the next decade, because there's so much acreage there tied up in such poor land usage that could be flipped instantly to better things, upper Morrissey by UMass is actively being doodled around with a MassDOT reimagining leaving the southern section wanting for a similar road diet, and the infill station is such a cost-effective layup for jump-starting real urban density.
 
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