by F-line to Dudley via Park
8/3/1964. Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of the T's incorporation.
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Bramdeisroberts wrote: or choosing to spend >1 Billion extending the most overburdened line of all into a city with hundreds of thousands of riders when DMU/EMU service would have been far cheaper and wouldn't have led to ANOTHER CR line getting crippled by single-track running?I thought both the Fitchburg and Lowell lines will both still be 2 tracks after the GLX?
Gerry6309 wrote:I can't see how they can shoehorn 4 tracks and required separation of LR and CR into that right-of-way. (Especially on the outer end, beyond the junction with the old freight cut-off.There is room.
Bramdeisroberts wrote:or spending all of that money on the new trackless trolleys only to pull down the wires over Trapelo?When did this happen? I didn't know there were any routes beyond Waverly Sq. The only diesel equivalent today is the 554.
BostonUrbEx wrote:News to me as well. IIRC diesel buses are currently substituting on at least some of the trackless routes due to construction, but that's only supposed to be temporary.Bramdeisroberts wrote:or spending all of that money on the new trackless trolleys only to pull down the wires over Trapelo?When did this happen? I didn't know there were any routes beyond Waverly Sq. The only diesel equivalent today is the 554.
Bramdeisroberts wrote:Take a drive down Trapelo from Waverley to Mount Auburn Street, I haven't seen wires or tracklesses there in at least 1+ year.Diesel buses started running in September 2013; it should be a two-year project. I haven't heard updates.