I hope it happens. Maverick- seaport will definitely be faster than SL (assuming reasonable frequency)
Lovejoy Wharf could be ready next week if they wanted to. Maverick is dependent on Clippership Wharf's completion. A few years out before any Maverick service.
Boston Globe said:The South Boston Bypass Road [...] between the waterfront and the Southeast Expressway is open now to only commercial vehicles — tractor-trailers, cabs, and the like — to keep them out of residential neighborhoods. But as more employers move into the area, bringing with them more congestion, there are hints state officials are preparing for more widespread use of the bypass.
One obvious clue: plans for a project to overhaul Cypher Street and extend it another block, from D Street to E Street. Now a ragged stretch with no sidewalks, Cypher offers an alternative connection between the South Boston neighborhood and the bypass road behind the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center. It can also act as a crucial link between the A Street and D Street corridors, improving the traffic flow to and from the area.
City officials say the Cypher project could include renovations to the existing street, to make it more pedestrian-friendly and to clean up pollutants buried in the soil there, as well as a short extension of E Street to better connect it with Summer Street and the Haul Road.
The full cost has yet to be determined, although two state lawmakers issued a statement boasting that they expect at least $9.7 million to be spent on the project as part of $25 million authorized for road improvements in the area over five years.
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A train/subway is what is really needed.
^ You do realize that that bus is going to be hopelessly bogged down in traffic on either of those routes to Back Bay? Particularly mornings and early evenings, when it will be most needed to move people to and from the BCEC.
And many of the roads won't easily accommodate a bus only lane (which are routinely ignored in Boston anyway).
Ferry to/from Lovejoy Wharf being studied.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/business...rry-instead/1clitSLsaogjzSuegjLcfJ/story.html
Tend to think there'll be a problem marrying supply (number of ferries) with peak demand times.
Congress St should get a contraflow bus lane (where one way) and an exclusive lane (where 2-way) and a bus (replacing the 4's function) should just run back and forth all day on 4 minute headways:
Canal @NS [CR Green Orange]
Congress @Haymarket [Green Orange]
Congress @State St [Blue]
Congress @POSquare
Congress @Purchase/Altantic/Fed Reserve
Congress @Children's Museum
Congress @A Street
Congress @WTC Station [Silver]
Congress @Northern Ave
Northern Ave @ Tide
Drydock-Black Falcon loop
There, I fixed it.
I like that a lot, but the stop spacing is pretty tight near the channel. Children's Museum is only 600 feet from A street. Either drop the Museum or kick A street out to Boston Wharf Rd.