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Essentially, digging up the streets of Brookline and Brighton is probably not in the cards, nor necessary to get to the 50% number. A route would be something like: Starting from Charles/MGH, dig up Storrow, dig a trench, then cover it over At Kenmore dive under the GL for a deeper station...

Can't resist that parking revenue I guess.

You're right that cost would be greater, but I think the benefit of bringing a subway line to Waltham, Watertown, and Brighton is also much greater than connecting Everett to downtown. (And the cost can potentially be brought down if 50% or more can be built in cuttings/above ground, which I...

It really depends on what you think the future of the CR could be. Personally I see a future where the CR is a mix of regional/commuter and intercity rail, and with this context a line to Concord is actually a reasonable length. But if your CR future is a system built around getting people to...

Yes, this is a concern, but I would say that the main 'meat' of the blog post is "If you're building an orbital line, don't neglect making transfers and orbital connections for the purpose of getting a radial bit in." and I don't think that's really applies here, especially with the Chelsea...

The purpose of the Pink Line on this map is to provide a dedicated route to get people to/through the Kendall/MIT area from the other lines. Community College has lots of space for a large transfer station, two YL tracks and PL tracks, preferably with cross-platform interchange, and 4 CR...

Also took the opportunity to fix some white borders I missed.

well that's stupid, how did I not see that?

Finally got this across the finish line (Well, before I find any mistakes anyways.) Finally got around to learning Illustrator which made it a lot easier to focus on the finer details, and I'm pretty happy with how the actual arrangement of the lines worked out, maybe except for the B branch...

Which population shapefile did you use? I've wanted to do some analysis similar to this but finding a good population shapefile has been annoying enough to push me to do other things. Anyways, my only real suggestion is that it's convention to have a north arrow, so don't forget to add that.

Like this?

I have BL to Brandeis/Roberts on my almost finished map as well, the route I'm using for my head-cannon is a TBM tunnel from the current Longwood D Branch stop to Watertown Sq via Coolidge Corner, Brighton Center, and Arsenal Yards, then continuing west before surfacing at the current Watertown...

Yes they were in service, the Tremont St Subway was used to link the Charlestown El and the Washington St El for 7 years before the Washington St subway was finished.

Just doing a quick measure on Google Earth and it seems like the new B Branch stops and Columbus Ave stops are all about 9 feet wide, so I'd assume they'd go for the same width on this project.

At the meeting I believe the requirements mentioned were that the platforms are required to be 9 feet wide, the transit lanes need to be 12 feet wide, and the two-lane cycle path will be 13 feet wide.

They'll probably release a new schedule for the Lowell Line whenever it reopens.

Map for the new timetable ...and the SCR version: For now I'm taking the lazy route and not adding more symbols and/or text to show the weird RL transfer at Braintree for the last Inbound Kingston train.

Schedule oddities: They've really ramped up the late night outbound "Get on this other line then change at X to the one you want" trains. Newburyport, Kingston, and Needham all have this now. Kingston has the privilege of the last inbound train doing that but with the RL at Braintree (I have no...

I mean, to some extent this is true, but this is also a major case of "People aren't shopping for things that don't really exist." Make duplexes available and people will buy them.