...one could be forgiven for assuming that the object of American transit operators like MBTA is to push people into buying cars.
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"WTF, people are STILL riding trains and buses? How much more do we have to make them suffer before they get the message?" Only
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The five busiest bus routes in Boston: - Former Green Line E Branch - Dudley to Ashmont and Mattapan (2 routes) - Harvard to Dudley (2 routes) So that's a former rail corridor + 2 other radial routes, then 2 crosstown routes...
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...is there *any* serious initiative at MBTA for expanding capacity here where people clearly want it? Need ROW, need frequency--and probably want larger vehicles than you can manage with articulated buses! Get back on track!
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btw, all five of those routes have higher ridership than any section of the Silver Line
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Eh. As a 39 rider, the only way an E restoration would seem to make sense is if it got dedicated ROW. Reliability problems past Brigham Circle are serious.
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1- don't buses have the exact same reliability problems? and yes of course you'd want dedicated ROW regardless of mode 2- Green Line vehicles have way higher capacity than the largest articulated buses so that's already an advantage
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1) the buses can navigate around obstacles in a way trolleys can't; this is very apparent on the shared segment between Brigham Circle and Heath. 2) yes, this is a benefit, but the 39 is really only massively crowded at PM peak, and that's only b/c headways are longer than AM.
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I'm not opposed to trying something to resolve the E/39 situation but it's not a high priority IMO.
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it's moving backwards when you convert a corridor away from a mode which can make the most use of exclusive ROW before you actually set about making an exclusive ROW, and it's doubly foolish when ridership remains higher than any other route of that mode
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that said, the priority on the 39 corridor at this point is definitely to dedicate ROW, converting to tracks would come later
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...follow up priority, get rid of all that on-street parking, wtf are they thinking
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