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At least she's talking transit.
How could any linear transit - whether monorail or light rail - serve the various business parks on either side of 128 without doing some bizarre zigzag?
Sadly, the Winter Street hilltop stuff is a terrible dead end, hemmed in by Weston (South) Lincoln (North & West) and Cambridge's Reservoir (East). Lincoln has underscored this point by making their roads one way for just long enough to choke off the AM rush.I think you could run a loop from Main St along 128 on Bear Hill, out around the reservoir, onto to Trapelo and across 128, then down Wyman and carrying through Prospect Hill.
I think you could run a loop from Main St along 128 on Bear Hill, out around the reservoir, onto to Trapelo and across 128, then down Wyman and carrying through Prospect Hill.
Sure, you could, but then you'd have no connection to any real transit. Basically that would only serve the three or four people each day who for some reason or another need to move between different office parks and who don't want to take their car.
You could run it down to the commuter rail line and have a new stop.That route would cover 75% of Waltham's office parks.
But the mayor's idea is to run it from Westwood to Burlington.
Under her vision, McCarthy said she would hope to have an elevated electric monorail built that would connect Burlington to Waltham and then run down to Westwood and connect to the existing Fitchburg/South Acton commuter rail.
McCarthy said she is lobbying the state Department of Transportation (DOT) to include the idea in a feasibility study it plans to do about the Route 128 corridor.
- See more at: http://waltham.wickedlocal.com/article/20150112/NEWS/150119235#sthash.nMRXmFcW.dpuf
However, lots of issues at the intersections
Not to mention, a lot of the office parks would still be +1mile walks from the monorail station. 128 ain't exactly Comm Ave.