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Alternative_Nail1632 t1_iyev8lr wrote

Reply to comment by Ksevio in Finally connecting Red and Blue lines by MDeehan

I disagree. That assumes everyone is going to the place where the station is, which most people are not doing

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Ksevio t1_iyeyfs9 wrote

That's not an assumption here. The stations are not just destinations but connection points.

For example, someone could travel from Worcester to a job in Charlestown, they need to go something like:

Worcester -(CR)> South Station -(Red)> Downtown Crossing -(Orange)> Community College

With the N/S link they could do:

Worcester -(CR)> North Station -(Orange)> Community College

Cuts out a connection and a significant amount of slower subway travel.

It also allows people to commute between suburbs. Someone travelling from Dorchester to Woburn has to do:

Four Corners -> South Station -> Downtown Crossing -> North Station -> Anderson

With the link it's just:

Four Corners -> Anderson

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Master_Dogs t1_iyf7nfd wrote

> Cuts out a connection and a significant amount of slower subway travel. > >

Transfers take a lot of time too. On the weekends I've seen 20 minutes between Red and Green Line trains. One less transfer could easily save you that much time. Possibly more, if a transfer causes you to miss an hourly bus for example it might cost you an hour or so.

The other cool thing is we could run trains between say Worcester and Lowell, or Lynn and Framingham, or any number of connections that currently are basically "I need to drive or spend 3 hours on a train/subway/train" with the hourly commuter rail trains and occasionally 20 minute headways on the subway being huge "fuck the T, I'll drive" points.

And if we can run trains between North and South station we could probably make due with less trains. Or run trains at higher frequencies. That gives us some good options. Maybe we take a few trains from a lesser used line and put them on those Worcester -> Lowell/Lynn routes I mentioned.

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