Tag: Proposal
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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…
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[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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[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…