Talk:Ashmont–Mattapan High Speed Line
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Is this line in fact now closed as it was scheduled to be? The MBTA site still talks about the June 24 closing in the future tense. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by GMcGath (talk • contribs) 13:45, July 20, 2006.
[edit] yes, it's closed
Yes, it closed as scheduled and I have been riding the shuttle bus to Ashmont since. The current bus schedule can be found at [1], and the bus route map is at [2]. Note that the bus follows two routes: one over River St. and one over Brook and Central. There's also a van that only stops at Ashmont, Valley Road, and Capen via Eliot St. because both bus routes miss those two stops. (The Eliot route used to be handled by a bus that also stopped at all the other stops too, but it was replaced with the van either Summer or Fall of 2007.)
Also, there is no chance whatsoever that the trolley line will be back in service until at least early-to-mid 2008. I've been watching the construction at Ashmont and they're just starting to put up the roof beams. Currently, the back 1/3 of the inbound platform and a slice along the outbound platform are gone (to build roof columns). Walls are nowhere near finished, and they're still moving moving dirt around in some parts of the site. The station has to be at least most of the way done before the trolley line can reopen, as the temporary blacktop ramp leading from the temporary fare-collection hut to the inbound platform covers part of the trolley track.
Some good news about the trolleys: There was an item in the Metro a couple months ago stating that the Mattapan trolleys will have air conditioners installed when they come back. (Previously they just had a fan in the roof.) Many of the trolley stations are being worked on too.
Oddly, the shuttle buses' auto-announcer still says "Ashmont Station - Change here for Subway, Bus and High Speed Line"... 24.60.196.199 03:47, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Description
"To reference the route as a 'high speed line' is a misnomer as the route is neither characterized by a fully dedicated, grade separated right-of-way, nor by high-speed rolling stock." This is rather odd... The High-Speed designation refers to it's dedicated right of way (I'm not sure what "fully dedicated" means- nothing else runs on the tracks, and there are only two relatively minor grade crossings) as opposed to the other streetcar lines ran by the Boston Elevated Railway in the 1920s, which ran directly in streets (see the "E" Green Line) or at best in medians (see the "B", "C", and "E" Green Line) with many at-grade crossings- this allowed a significant speed advantage over the other lines between Mattapan and Ashmont. --71.124.173.134 02:10, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
