octr202 wrote:While I don't follow the project much as I don't live in Belmont anymore, all project materials I've seen refer to the replacement of trackless overhead during the project. I know that there was a small minority in Belmont who pushed for the elimination of the tracklesses in the planning process, but I don't believe that went anywhere.
F-line to Dudley via Park wrote:octr202 wrote:While I don't follow the project much as I don't live in Belmont anymore, all project materials I've seen refer to the replacement of trackless overhead during the project. I know that there was a small minority in Belmont who pushed for the elimination of the tracklesses in the planning process, but I don't believe that went anywhere.
No. Cambridge and Watertown said "over my dead body". The loop where Belmont St. and Trapelo split off is going way, but all overhead and poles are being replaced. I think the new poles are going to hold decorative street lights (sort of like the non-decorative ones the Cushing Sq. trolley poles hold) because part of this massive project involves burying the utility wires and getting rid of the ugly telephone poles that line both sides of the street. Or at least that was the original plan...not sure if if that improvement survived the budget axe or not.
Gerry6309 wrote:Boston's trackless network was once bigger than San Francisco's. Unfortunately, a certain general manager in the early 1960s never saw a wire he liked.
ThinkNarrow wrote:Gerry6309 wrote:Boston's trackless network was once bigger than San Francisco's. Unfortunately, a certain general manager in the early 1960s never saw a wire he liked.
Yes, Thomas J. McLernon.
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