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This building was supposed to be TOD from when they rebuilt Ashmont but it's monolithic (instead of many small buildings) and mostly impervious at street level (wasting valuable frontage). Compare to shops in distance, which is more what TOD is supposed to look likepic.twitter.com/XKUwulYIkH
Aren't there issues with loading gauge? In Japan it's easy because all their trains are small. But in Western countries trains and subways are of different sizes
Japanese trains aren't small...they have higher ceilings than American or English trains for the most part. They also don't have standardized dimensions--on Odakyu, only some rolling stock can continue onto the narrower Chiyoda Subway Line...
...while the rest go to Shinjuku terminal instead. But the restriction only works one way--all Chiyoda trains can continue onto Odakyu tracks.
Train dimensions and track gauges vary, but this needn't be an obstacle to intertoperation if you're smart about it
Well, this is from an old interoperation research for my Rīga. 4 is the loading gauge of metro and 6 is the loading gauge of commuter trains – they don't fit in tunnels. But commuter trains cannot be made narrower or other trains won't fit in heavy rail stations.pic.twitter.com/6OncpfOCYW
But the conclusion of the research was that it is worth to build bigger tunnels and have commuter trains run through them.
JFK/Columbia used to only have a platform for the Ashmont Branch. The one for the Braintree Branch was added later. There really was no other alternative to the current layout.
Even if that were true at time of construction it's not as if train stations never get full rebuilds (for new service or just bc they're outdated)
That’d involve a wholesale rebuild of the Red Line including the signaling. @ofsevit might have more insight. We are talking about the underfunded T y’know
Yes, it would...but that's just difficult, not impossible. MBTA needs all kinds of work which won't be cheap; getting rid of its debt and developing a positive cashflow are also necessary
Fortunately the Big Dig solved all the traffic problems for Boston forever, so now the T, which is paying for it, can move on to other issues.
Hell the two subway branches don't share platforms there
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