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I wouldn't exactly call what the 64 provides "service."

Cambridge and N. Harvard is a pretty desolate automobile sewer, admittedly. And Franklin Street could desperately use some revitalization. Although, I suspect the local residents like it dead the way it is.

Restoration of the Allston subway as a busway probably belongs under "(Super) Crazy Transit Pitches."
 
Matthew said:
I wouldn't exactly call what the 64 provides "service."

Cambridge and N. Harvard is a pretty desolate automobile sewer, admittedly. And Franklin Street could desperately use some revitalization. Although, I suspect the local residents like it dead the way it is.

Restoration of the Allston subway as a busway probably belongs under "(Super) Crazy Transit Pitches."
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Speaking as a North Cambridge resident of 9 years, I'd have to disagree. They love their TT's, and you'd be surprised how much reliance there is on the 74 and 83. But auto sewer it is, which sucks because pretty much all other parts of Mass Ave. except Harvard-Porter and Porter-16 have been upgraded to "competently functional" in the last 20 years. Except for that auto sewer stretch.

I also hate how hard it is to get to Watertown from Porter/Alewife. They're sitting right next to each other, but there isn't a damn thing connecting them. Watch the Watertown Branch community path become as heavily-trafficked as the Minuteman to Arlington Center...it'll become the de facto transit line serving that need and Cambridge access to Arsenal/H20 Mall because all other options are either non-existent or suck ass.
 
F-Line, the post you are replying to is referring to the intersection of North Harvard Street and Cambridge Street in Allston -- not to North Cambridge.
 
The 66 jog around Union Square is such a disaster that I used to get off at Harvard and Comm and walk to Harvard and Cambridge, catching the 66 in front of the one I was on with time to spare.

Regarding the "subway" here is an atlas showing the old footbridge:
http://www.wardmaps.com/viewasset.php?aid=996

And the replacement tunnel, which aligned with the sidewalk (so it would be useless today for a bus anyway, dimensions aside)
http://www.wardmaps.com/viewasset.php?aid=8503
 
Matthew said:
I wouldn't exactly call what the 64 provides "service."

Cambridge and N. Harvard is a pretty desolate automobile sewer, admittedly. And Franklin Street could desperately use some revitalization. Although, I suspect the local residents like it dead the way it is.

Restoration of the Allston subway as a busway probably belongs under "(Super) Crazy Transit Pitches."
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The only thing crazy about it is that it won't happen. It makes perfect sense, would serve many people with improved transit, wouldn't cost a $b, and would help an area that needs transit improvement. I consider the Urban Ring to be a crazy transit pitch and this to be the urban ring's logical, small scale, useful step 1 to improving cross town routes.
 
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