Tag: Back Bay
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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”
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…