Talk:North-South Rail Link
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[edit] Monorail
- When I personally worked at the Amtrak HR office on Summer Street (South Station) in 2003 there was talk within the office that this link would be provided by a Monorail. Should I include that or is it too close to hear-say? CaribDigita 17:50, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
- Unpublished rumors are generally not included. The official DEIR mentions a bus. The Association for Public Transit has proposed a rail line on the Rose Kennedy Greenway. It's probably best to stick with published proposals. Has anyone notable proposed a monorail in print or online? I've removed the statement for now. -- Beland 03:20, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Why build a Central Station?
- North station and South station aren't that far apart--if this link were made and a Central Station were built, would that mean that trains would be stopping at North Station, Central Station, South Station, and Back Bay Station? That sounds ridiculous to me--intercity trains would be stopping in Boston as often as the subway--but I must be misunderstanding something. --Marlow4 19:47, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
- Believe it or not, many subway stops in downtown Boston are even more closely spaced. It does make sense for commuter rail to have three downtown stations, since the vast majority of riders have destinations actually in downtown Boston, many of which are in the center of the city, rather than near the northern or southern edges. You are right to wonder if that makes sense for Amtrak, and as I just updated the article to say, it turns out that the DEIR/MIS actually assumes that any given Amtrak train will only make one stop in the city of Boston. -- Beland 03:20, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
- The Old Colony Lines and the Fairmount line don't go through Back Bay station, so there are certainly some MBTA Commuter Rail trains that could only stop in the North/Central/South stations. On the other hand, there's the possibility that some MBTA Commuter Rail trains would continue to terminate at South Station, and those would certainly benefit from a stop at Back Bay if they go through there. I'm not sure why DEIR/MIS would assume that Amtrak will only stop at one station when the Amtrak trains I remember riding have stopped at both Back Bay and South Station (and my printed timetable says even the Acela Express trains stop at Back Bay), but I would assume that if they only want to stop at two, they'd switch to stoping at South Station and North Station (but who knows what will happen). I'm also not sure why there's an assumption that the Downeaster would remain a separate train from the Regional in a post-North-South Rail Link world. JNW2 (talk) 03:02, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Tunnel Under Artery
This article does not make clear whether the walls under the Central Artery which could make a train tunnel possible run the whole length of the artery, or just from North Station to South Station. It would be nice if the article explained that. On the other hand, the southern end of the Central Artery may not have the most convenient connection to the Old Colony and Fairmount Lines anyway. JNW2 (talk) 03:24, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
