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Elcamo wrote:Rereading through the thread, and I saw lots of posts regarding terminating CR at Beverly and having the Blue line take over the ROW....So how would the MBTA get CR equipment to the maintenance facility?
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Elcamo wrote:Rereading through the thread, and I saw lots of posts regarding terminating CR at Beverly and having the Blue line take over the ROW....So how would the MBTA get CR equipment to the maintenance facility?
diburning wrote:That proposal was being kicked around in the 1950's, I believe. It hasn't been touched since. It included a small shop near Beverly Depot. I believe where the siding is just north of the depot.Elcamo wrote:Rereading through the thread, and I saw lots of posts regarding terminating CR at Beverly and having the Blue line take over the ROW....So how would the MBTA get CR equipment to the maintenance facility?
diburning wrote:That was one of the problems I had with it becoming solely blue line too, it would have to fit under catenary somehow or be shipped to BET for really bad problems. A facility in Beverly could've been built, but it would have been expensive as the mbta doesn't own much lane there already, and I bet the city would fight it really hard too.Elcamo wrote:Rereading through the thread, and I saw lots of posts regarding terminating CR at Beverly and having the Blue line take over the ROW....So how would the MBTA get CR equipment to the maintenance facility?
F-line to Dudley via Park wrote:Beverly is a bit far. It's outside of the MBTA bus district, so there's not a whole lot to transfer to out there.Blue Line 15+ miles to Salem? That would be a fun ride. That distance is better off served by Commuter Rail.
BL to South Salem--after Lynn is built sometime in our great grandchildren's lifetime--is an MPO-rated project. Eastern Route is 4-track width from the Lynn side of the river all the way to the southerly portal of the tunnel, and the very seldom-used Pan Am yard is an ideal place to plunk down a maint facility. Look at the 2003 Program for Mass Transportation. The ridership projections are insane. Lynn alone isn't enough to satiate the North Shore transit demand...and yet here we still are 60 years later wondering when the hell they're going to stop screwing around and get that far. Really...if it weren't for institutional self-loathing the drumbeat for rapid transit to Salem would be reaching fever pitch by now.
The EGE wrote:The MBTA lines are set up as purely subway equipment, not semi-commuter equipment like the DC Metro. If you want longer than 10 mile trips on rapid transit, you need commuter-style cars.The Egg- Make 'em all "cattle cars"!!! hehehehe!!!