CriticalTransit t1_iy2fovl wrote
Reply to comment by UniWheel in Progress on the Mass Central Rail Trail in Waltham. Ultimately will connect Boston to Northampton by Exit_127
Unfortunately the Worcester/Springfield route does nothing for people in the NW part of the region. At this point I would settle for a bus once an hour.
UniWheel t1_iy40vz4 wrote
>Unfortunately the Worcester/Springfield route does nothing for people in the NW part of the region.
Because it goes west to Albany by way of Pittsfield rather than North Adams?
> At this point I would settle for a bus once an hour.
It looks like the bus from Albany to Springfield currently runs just three times a week.
Yes, there's a feedback loop there - service so infrequent as to not really be usable means no one even thinks to check if transit is possible for a given trip, which means low ridership and no justification for running the service.
CriticalTransit t1_iy5ggfa wrote
The problem with existing service is it requires going through South Station or Back Bay which burns a lot of time. If you live in Somerville, for example.
UniWheel t1_iy5gxkm wrote
>The problem with existing service is it requires going through South Station or Back Bay which burns a lot of time. If you live in Somerville, for example.
That's inevitably true of transit routes - they're built where the peak demand is.
We're yet to even get our act together to have one cross state rail service that runs more than at most once a day and that only as part of the Boston split of the water level Chicago service.
Actually building one beats musing about a second.
Note that if you try to drive from Somerville to Northampton you're probably going to take 90 south of the Quabbin rather than route 2 north of it, which is to say, you'll be roughly paralleling the train.
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