F-line to Dudley via Park wrote: A second CR station has never really gotten any public mention, and that's probably because their transit options are already well-served. Figure that if they weren't densely-served enough, with all the ongoing studies about an extension to Nashua the school--which is bulking up big-time--would've surely tried to insert itself into the discussion by now and throw its weight around.
Arborwayfan wrote:I assume that Aerie's suggesting a station for people headed to the university, not a new park-and-ride.
Aerie wrote:Arborwayfan wrote:I assume that Aerie's suggesting a station for people headed to the university, not a new park-and-ride.
That is my suggestion...to enable students to get to UMass Lowell more easily from Boston and the northern suburbs. Although the University operates an extensive shuttle bus service connecting the various campus locations, the shuttle buses are not permitted to serve the railroad station during hours when the LRTA is operating. Students arriving at the railroad station must take the LRTA #6 bus, which runs only every 35 minutes. Since the UMass Lowell south campus is only a short distance up the line from Lowell station, and since the tracks are level with the parking lot at Pawtucket Street, and since a new dormitory (Riverview Suites) is being built across the tracks from the campus right at that location, I thought it might make sense to include a commuter rail stop at that point. http://goo.gl/maps/LE2iQ I am not sure how the University is going to get students from the new dormitory to the campus, but they will need either a bridge over the tracks or a tunnel under them, and it might be possible to combine a commuter rail platform as part of that. I have no idea, however, how many students make the commute to UMass Lowell by train, but the MBTA does have a history of providing services at Colleges/Universities (Boston College, Boston University, Harvard, Northeastern, Brandeis, Tufts (GLX), etc.)
caduceus wrote:There was a shuttle at one time...don't know if it still exists or not.
Now, if they could extend the trolley to the station...
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