Recent content by Delvin4519

Following up on this, RMTransit published a new video talking about why bus routes paralleling and duplicating rapid transit subway lines are almost always a terrible, terrible, bad idea. Funny that the video came out after asking whether it's possible to de-duplicate bus routes from fantasy...

Yea, there were a few things missed, there's a bit more nuance in my post that weren't taken into account. 1. I am not trying to connect Grand Junction with GLX, GLX from Lechmere doesn't exist on this alternate history/reality/fantasy map (notice the dead end at Lechmere), but instead all...

I can't decide if this belongs in "transit ideas so bad they're good", "fantasy t maps", or the "god mode sandbox" thread, so I'm sticking this here (well, I'd like to see perfect lines on the map). Finally got around to adding all of the Eastern Mass & Middlesex and Boston routes to my fantasy...

The most negative change of the planned upcoming BNRD, would be travel times to downtown on the 426. BNRD will eliminate the 428 express bus, and the 426 being redirected to Wonderland would likely dramatically increase travel times to Downtown. With a massive gap between the Orange and Blue...

Yes, I was simply trying to use a single line to serve all the RR ROW underserved areas. In practice, I would probably just extend the Green Line tunnel further. As the fantasy T maps thread goes, my wildly insane/impractical/unrealistic HRT network, that follows every single mainline RR ROW to...

I've only used Linden Square as a terminal, given it's existing use as the route terminal for the 108 and 109 buses, its location close to edge of the former BERy streetcar network, as well as being the last stop for the 426 bus before going express to Boston. (BNRD will likely shift the 119's...

The issue of radial vs. circumferential routes is why it's probably best to keep the 111 directed to Downtown. It's also why riders of the 92 bus were/are heavily opposed to having their route cut back to Community College and losing the Haymarket busway connection, as the Orange Line is...

Following up on this. I just did a closer inspection of the MBTA's 10 year old outdated maps (all of them are dated 2016). The MBTA's maps do not seem to use a weighing factor between population density vs. employment density. As far as I can tell, the T overlays the employment map on top of...

There isn't any automated way that I'm aware of. I literally just spent 2 sessions over the course of 2 long afternoons/evenings manually copying over generated walksheds from the travel time map, from each RR crossing, to my map. There aren't that many RR crossings, since my fantasy mainline...

I've just tried to generate a map of "population densities within 10 minute walking distance of an R/R crossing" by testing what happens if Teban54's population map is overlaid on top of the map, and the map cuts off North Beverly Station by 220px (oh no). In any case I probably would need to...

The maps look very good! I really appreciate creating the large 495 map, meaning the full MBTA service area (and even past to) Framingham, North Beverly, and Brockton, can be visualized on the map. One minor issue with the new maps is the the low density tracts do not have enough colors. I...

Another 5 weeks has passed, another update on the bus service/bus operator shortage at the T. Data through the end of April. Date Count Vacant Change % of pre-COVID max Max count 5/2/2023 1,622 201 N/A 88.97% 1,823 6/29/2023 1,611 212 -11 88.37% 1,823 7/26/2023 1,548 368 (275 pre COVID)...

Commuter Rail schedules have been posted. The Fairmount Line will have 26 trips on weekends. Notabily 30 minute headways are only from 9:15 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. and from 1:15 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. On weekdays 30 minute headways from 6:15 to 10:15 a.m. and from 1:00 to 7:00 p.m. There are 50 minute...

I've used that name for my fantasy/unrealistic extensions of mainline HRT to Millenium Park and Dedham Mall. That area has had route terminals called "Charles River Loop" for the 36, and the 34 used to terminate at "Dedham Line", before the late 2019 bus routing (IIRC?) changes extended it a few...

Someone might probably find this useful, but I've expanded my "mainline railway ROW walksheds" map all the way to Route 128 in all directions. This means I have a map of all possible walksheds to the Highland Branch (D Branch Newton), Red Line to Braintree, as well as proposals for the Green...