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I have BL to Brandeis/Roberts on my almost finished map as well, the route I'm using for my head-cannon is a TBM tunnel from the current Longwood D Branch stop to Watertown Sq via Coolidge Corner, Brighton Center, and Arsenal Yards, then continuing west before surfacing at the current Watertown...

Yes they were in service, the Tremont St Subway was used to link the Charlestown El and the Washington St El for 7 years before the Washington St subway was finished.

Just doing a quick measure on Google Earth and it seems like the new B Branch stops and Columbus Ave stops are all about 9 feet wide, so I'd assume they'd go for the same width on this project.

At the meeting I believe the requirements mentioned were that the platforms are required to be 9 feet wide, the transit lanes need to be 12 feet wide, and the two-lane cycle path will be 13 feet wide.

They'll probably release a new schedule for the Lowell Line whenever it reopens.

Map for the new timetable ...and the SCR version: For now I'm taking the lazy route and not adding more symbols and/or text to show the weird RL transfer at Braintree for the last Inbound Kingston train.

Schedule oddities: They've really ramped up the late night outbound "Get on this other line then change at X to the one you want" trains. Newburyport, Kingston, and Needham all have this now. Kingston has the privilege of the last inbound train doing that but with the RL at Braintree (I have no...

I mean, to some extent this is true, but this is also a major case of "People aren't shopping for things that don't really exist." Make duplexes available and people will buy them.

I would consider this way too vague/broad to be broadly applicable, this is really something that needs to be handled case-by-case by people familiar with the area they're zoning. There are places like Dedham Corporate center, where a quarter mile radius would require the rezoning of areas on...

Yeah this is what the official MBTA style does, but I'm still finalizing the actual layout of the lines and so I just haven't gotten around to finishing up all the details. There's still some missing station names, missing terminus line blobs, missing outlines over the water and CR, etc. The...

Getting the UR to make a perfect U is so satisfying that I just need to share it. While I'm here, if there was a station under the Tobin Bridge at Tremont St, should it be called Charlestown, Bunker Hill, Navy Yard, or something else?

Ah that makes sense, I thought we were talking about effectively bolting a rail layer on top of the existing CAT.

Are you suggesting that the state should impose zoning plans on the towns? Because I will disagree with you there, I don't think that brings any significant benefit outside of maybe simplifying a couple court cases while serving to antagonize both people and local governments.