Author: Teban54
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EZRide Cambridge is Now One of the Most Frequent Buses in Greater Boston
EZRide Cambridge is now one of the most frequent bus routes in the region — and likely the most underrated by far. The fare-free, non-MBTA bus route already ran every 8 minutes during rush hours before, but thanks to recent service improvements, now it also runs every 10-16 minutes during middays. Only four MBTA routes run…
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Can a Kendall-Back Bay Subway Be An “Urban Ring”? (Opinions and Analyses)
This post is a follow-up on my recent post of the Kendall-Back Bay subway, and is particularly driven by subsequent discussions on archBoston. When I first wrote about the Kendall-Back Bay proposal, I did not intend to treat it as an “Urban Ring” — a popular idea in Boston, and once an official project, that…
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![[Idea & Analysis] The Kendall-Back Bay Subway: From an Orange Line Re-route to the “Pink Line”](https://teban54transit.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/OL-Kendall-min.png)
[Idea & Analysis] The Kendall-Back Bay Subway: From an Orange Line Re-route to the “Pink Line”
TL;DR Background: The “Mass Ave Red Line” Proposal You had probably seen this proposal before: Reverse branching the Red Line (RL) via Mass Ave. The motivation is very natural and explains its popularity: Mass Ave, a major north-south road corridor in a region where north-south rapid transit connectivity is scarce, also happens to be on…
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![[Idea] Routing the Green Line Reconfiguration (Part 1): A Theoretical Framework of Capacity and Service Patterns](https://teban54transit.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/GLR1_Criss-Criss-b-1.png)
[Idea] Routing the Green Line Reconfiguration (Part 1): A Theoretical Framework of Capacity and Service Patterns
How many trains can we run with Green Line Reconfiguration? How should we actually route them? I design a theoretical framework for understanding GLR’s capacity, and arrive at a variety of interesting ways to connect the (potential) origin and destinations in Boston’s LRT network.
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Data: Population Density Map of Boston with Transit Lines
Population density plays a crucial role in any kind of transit planning, from amateur to professional. In most cases, there is a general consensus that neighborhoods and routes serving a greater population deserve higher qualities of transit. Yet, data and visualizations of Greater Boston’s population seem surprisingly hard to find. Existing population density maps and…
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![[Map] Green Line Reconfiguration: A Modern Subway for a Modern Boston](https://teban54transit.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/main_double-size-v2.1-01.png)
[Map] Green Line Reconfiguration: A Modern Subway for a Modern Boston
Here is my submission to the Transportation Dreams Challenge by the Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library: Green Line Reconfiguration. This is a fantasy map on a concept that had been discussed on ArchBoston for almost 10 years. If you want to go down the rabbit hole that’s now 62 pages…