MBTA "Transformation" (Green Line, Red Line, & Orange Line Transformation Projects)

TheRatmeister said:
I think they would have immediately been proven wrong and the New Deal funds would have gone towards the construction of such a subway.
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It's interesting, though, because "higher capacity rail that can still interact with the streetscape" is really a description of Los Angeles-style light rail. It does make me wonder if there's a world where some of the Comm Ave (or Beacon St, for that matter) crossings are closed, and others replaced with quad gates.
 
Riverside said:
I'll stop spamming the thread now, but I see that BostonInTransit.com now has full scans of the Plates of the above report, which either they didn't have before, or which I didn't notice. Either way, they are very cool: https://www.bostonintransit.com/col...-facilities-in-the-metropolitan-district-1926
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It's striking how much the ideas they had 100 years ago still would make sense today - it's just that we can't build most of them anymore. There are some good ideas that came later, like the Red Line to Porter and Davis, but on the whole Boston would have much better transit if they'd just followed through.
 
And Plate 015 just makes me want to cry.
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I've posted it elsewhere, but the document that really makes me want to cry is the original 1940's transportation planning documents. They contain all of the ambitious highway plans, but also very strongly state that the highways are only half of the solution, as an equal investment in rapid transit was required to meet the region's transportation needs. The document outlines many of those investments. Instead, we got part of the highways implemented and none of the transit.

EDIT: Here's the link: https://archive.org/details/reportofmetropol00mass_1/page/14/mode/2up
 
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