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TheManFromFairwinds t1_j6nc625 wrote

That urban ring is too far out. If you do this you need something closer, otherwise you're still going downtown to do any transfers.

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hero_ad_interim t1_j6nea4c wrote

It's like a suburban ring. Honestly, I don't think it's that bad to have if there was an inner ring too. What would the inner one look like? Roxbury/Dorchester > East Newton > Medford type of thing?

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TheManFromFairwinds t1_j6nhsth wrote

I'd still say that's too far out, if you're in somerville and want to go to allston you'd still be stuck going downtown first. Something like this sounds good to me.

https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/5wm9z7/three_years_ago_i_created_a_hypothetical_future_t/

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Master_Dogs t1_j6njlvj wrote

They did an inner ring - it's based on the classic MBTA Urban Ring proposal from the looks of it. It's the Silver Line basically that runs from the Airport to Wellington to Union to Central then to BU / Longwood / Ruggles / etc.

You can see the similarities in the MBTA's proposal here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MBTA_Urban_Ring_map.svg

I want to say they basically copied it. Maybe there's some slight differences I'm not noticing - like the lack of a proper Airport station on their map, vs the T's proposal would actually have one in that little loop de loop.

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Master_Dogs t1_j6nf0ea wrote

I think they used 128 for one of the rings, and then they sorta did the T's original Urban Ring closer to the center. It's a cool idea to use the highway as another ring, but ultimately not super useful I think since that makes it really tricky to do transit oriented development (people don't want to live next to a highway and the highway adds distance for walking, biking and bus connections).

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