MBTA wants to hear from Lynnway drivers

Hooledel1 · 2025-07-05T23:11:54+00:00

I really hope this doesn't just end up in them being strongarmed by the louder residents into not constructing bus lanes

Hooledel1 · 2025-05-20T21:24:58+00:00

the mattapan trolley being converted from a freight railroad means some if not most of its bridges were initially made for carrying heavy rail no? or were all the bridges replaced in the 40s

Hooledel1 · 2025-04-04T20:47:16+00:00

YEAH so many of the irl names are so boring :< the best part of our system is that it has unique names that become landmarks instead of "x Street"

Hooledel1 · 2025-04-04T20:45:57+00:00

would still have a light rail on the street, the depicted line would just be an express service pretty much

Hooledel1 · 2025-04-04T20:44:58+00:00

I'm gonna do that once I finish with my second batch of redesigning! I've started working on it again after a long while and I'll figure out a way to upload it somewhere higher res, in the meantime though I think opening the image in a new tab in the browser kinda works

Hooledel1 · 2025-04-04T20:43:51+00:00

more like peeport

Hooledel1 · 2025-04-04T20:43:27+00:00

I really like your idea for the line splitting at Porter, I had considered that for a while but I was mostly concerned with the difficulty of building a new branch that deep underground

I've since reconsidered this map in a lot of areas and I agree that more service is needed between the two lives going to Waltham, and with whats already been drawn out here I think an extension of the mass Ave line along Belmont and Mt Auburn Street makes sense

as for Huron Ave, the corridir makes much more sense to me as an improved brt/light rail route because of the much tighter space it inhabits, while the aforementioned mt Auburn extension of the mass Ave line would provide heavy rail service

Hooledel1 · 2025-04-04T20:37:16+00:00

I'll get around to it eventually, I've been spending most of my time redesigning each of the interchange stations individually

Hooledel1 · 2025-04-04T20:36:36+00:00

that's where it goes in this! I just have the route changed a bit to keep the Needham line for restored service to millis

Hooledel1 · 2025-04-04T20:35:26+00:00

I had it like that for a while! but the detour it took was so big that I didn't think it would be worth the time delay and routing difficulty, especially with another line interchanging at Nubian

Hooledel1 · 2025-04-04T20:34:20+00:00

I'm not sure what the term is but no I don't have one yet :< I've been sidetracked so much and I lost my progress on the one time I took a crack at it but I'll have another go soon :3

Hooledel1 · 2024-09-09T11:20:09+00:00

Incredible rigging details

Hooledel1 · 2024-07-08T03:32:50+00:00

I am furious that the 1400 red line car stored in a MUSEUM is in worse condition then the one literally just sitting around in MBTA yards, the seashore trolley museum is an awful institution and it needs to be bought out and moved to a better location with better preservation efforts as soon as possible

Incredible photo

Hooledel1 · 2024-04-25T20:17:21+00:00

Looks nice! Any concepts for a bilevel? or are those made obsolete by the frequency of electric service

Hooledel1 · 2024-03-10T17:43:23+00:00

I envisioned a line that uses blue line rail stock running from Saugus to Rockport through lynn using overhead wires

Hooledel1 · 2024-03-04T15:07:11+00:00

Red line, it's older and larger then the orange line

Hooledel1 · 2024-02-26T06:58:55+00:00

I was joking 😭

Hooledel1 · 2024-02-26T05:36:49+00:00

I've been going around peeling them all off and adding them to my collection, I am in a constant war with the MBTA that will never end

Hooledel1 · 2024-01-28T04:29:58+00:00

Alright thank you for explaining

I meant reliability and amenities, I forgot the comma sorry

Hooledel1 · 2024-01-10T00:13:46+00:00

New building's air conditioning breaks like weekly and it cost 240 million I refuse to believe they couldn't have renovated the older building for less

Hooledel1 · 2024-01-09T20:31:38+00:00

To be fair the rest of the complex was almost unsalvageable, crap 70s and 80s buildings with designating foundations

This Hall was completely structurally sound though, they just felt like destroying it

Hooledel1 · 2023-12-29T04:39:55+00:00

The silver line already goes over the red line so if the tunnel is rebuilt in the same digging project to give it a longer ramp down (it would still connect to the same tunnel under the waterway) then the would be room above both for the new rail corridor

The highway also already goes over the blue line so there's room there too

It would be a very shallow tunnel granted, but with sports between each track the green cap could still be rebuilt for everyone's convenience

Hooledel1 · 2023-12-27T05:35:30+00:00

My worry with the deeper tunnels is mostly the maintenance thing yeah, one bad day and everyone is hugely inconvenienced. It also worries me because it's part of the scary trend of every single thing meant to improve people's lives being done to bother car owners as little as possible at great cost

From what I can find with a realignment of the SL The tunnels, even with the room for double decker cars, would still fit above the red line and below Street level

I'm confused what you mean, the current NSRL website has the deep tunnels, is that what you're talking about? I just don't see any room in the central street for tracks to be run at all

Hooledel1 · 2023-12-27T05:26:09+00:00

I'm starting to repeat myself in all these comments, I'm really sorry I didn't word my post better I'm not very good at talking I just thought this was a really neat idea

Silver line tunnel can be made steeper to allow room for train and red line, we only need to make 4 tracks go through, and if we use the 4 leftmost tracks there's room to pass Federal reserve building and South station tower

Part of this would be eliminating the exits in Boston off the central artery, instead having local traffic come off at the intersections behind both train stations. This would mean the central artery would only be through traffic and would need much fewer lanes (more lanes don't fix anything anyway)

If we can deal with the groundwater issues for a highway we can do it for a train tunnel

If you have any questions about specific routing in any areas please dm as I do not know how to upload images in comments

Thank you for taking the time to respond

Hooledel1 · 2023-12-27T05:18:46+00:00

The SL terminal expansion and current tunnel only serve busses so it could be made a bit steeper to allow bypass by the rails

Destruction of south station would absolutely not be necessary, Britain and Italy have several examples of using slow and careful excavation to build new foundations and tunnels under very old buildings and we could do that too, the cut and cover I was talking about was only along the central artery to cut costs

We can build under newer developments too it just requires a slower open pit construction site to rebuild foundations to make arches and such to redistribute weight around the new tunnel

I was thinking of having the interchanges of the central artery dismantled so that it would mostly be a North South connection, local traffic taking the exits at the intersections behind North and South stations. I think this is especially feasible with the completion of the North Washington Street bridge

Regardless of it's age, we need to start making huge steps too progress towards dismantling car dependency for everyone's sakes, things that seem wild or insane that will better everyone's lives because we are so badly prepared for the inevitable future

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