by johnpbarlow
Q: when PTC & cab signals are implemented between CP-21 Framingham and Boston (CP-Cove?), will the existing intermediate signals be removed?
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johnpbarlow wrote:Q: when PTC & cab signals are implemented between CP-21 Framingham and Boston (CP-Cove?), will the existing intermediate signals be removed?Yes.
That design should be finished next spring for a station that serves about 600 passengers each weekday, Pesaturo said. Work includes high-level platforms, elevators and ramps.Does anyone know what the configuration of the third track will be and what its impact on Worcester Line operations will be?
“Any public entity should be handicap accessible,” selectmen Chairwoman Amy Mistral said of the station.
The state, which will pay the $2.5 million cost, will also be picking up the tab for construction, which should be released in December when design completion reaches the 60 percent mark, Pesaturo said.
The design is 30 percent complete.
The Natick Center station design will also include a third track, according to Joshua Ostroff of the Natick Transportation Advisory Committee. A third track is called for in a $1.1 million study conducted by the state Department of Transportation to explore possible improvements on the Worcester Line, Pesaturo said.
BandA wrote:Okay, where can I look at the 30% design? $2.5M sounds too good to be true for elevators, ramps, high-level platforms and a third track. Can they do Auburndale, West Newton and Newtonville for $2.5M also??? Kthanks. Or is it $2.5M just for the design??According to the 2014 Blue Book, Natick is the 15th busiest station and has 1,077 daily weekday boardings. Not sure where the data in the article came from.
Is 600 daily passengers really "one of the busiest on the MBTA system?"