Green line extension simulation

[serious-noir.livejournal.com]

Very cool sim of the Green Line from Lechmere to Medford.
Anyone know of a sim for the Union Sq. branch?

Comments

[nonelvis]

Oh, wow! Very cool. Thanks for posting this!

[smammy]

Thanks very much for posting! Anyone know if the videos being projected are available anywhere?

[fefie.livejournal.com]

That video was shown at the recent community meetings that the GLX project team held in Jan-Feb about retaining walls and sound barriers at the future stations. (In this case, meetings held in the neighborhoods of the stations that will be built along the Lechmere to College Ave extension.) The simulation was so helpful for visualizing the experience of riding the GLX. I did not attend the Union Sq. GLX meeting so I cannot speak about whether they presented a sim at that meeting. And I don't see any sim videos on the GLX project team website.

[vonelftinhaus.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much for posting this. I can see the impact and importance for the "from perspective" inside the subway car itself but was curious why they had selected this particular view and also if there was a "3rd person" viewing of the route that was made?

Thank you again

[boblothrope.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

This helps explain why the project will be so expensive. Those station buildings (between the tracks, before each station platform) are *massive*, as are the viaducts near the beginning.

They should have been thinking more like the Green Line D (adapted for today's accessibility standards). The whole point of light rail was supposed to be that it was cheap to build, so you could build a lot of it to areas with moderate passenger demand.

Blowing a billion dollars on a 5-mile light rail line will ensure that none of the other neighborhoods around Boston will get the transit improvements they desperately need within our lifetimes.

[teko.livejournal.com]

Yeah, hearing him repeatedly say "...and there's a bridge that we're completely rebuilding... and another bridge, we're completely rebuilding that too... and a massive sound barrier that we're rebuilding... and there's the pedestrian path that we'll need to build... and here's another pedestrian bridge, that one's really huge..." explains why this is such a giant project.

[dial-zero.livejournal.com]

Very cool, but I gotta agree with the commenter who said it looks like a pretty depressing ride...

[somerfriend.livejournal.com]

We tried that angle, but the MBTA was adamant that people not be able to walk on the tracks as they can in the suburbs west of Boston. So we have to move forward.

[boblothrope.livejournal.com]

Ok, but no pedestrian grade crossings still doesn't imply giant station buildings.