I’m very excited to be living here, next to the coming redevelopment of 30 of the most valuable and connected acres of real estate in the whole country. I will be fighting hard for more city. https://www.cambridgeday.com/2024/08/08/mbta-looks-for-private-developer-to-take-on-aging-alewife-garage-and-the-acres-around-it/
@bikepedantic Kinda hoping they don't build themselves into a corner in a way that would preclude extending the red line. (Though I suppose that's planning for a future that'd probably never happen)
It'll be nice to get more people on the red line at Alewife, though, no matter what they do.
@wordshaper @bikepedantic they need to run the red line out to Burlington mall. Pick up route 3 and 128 traffic, turn all that flat parking there into a garage. If Arlington and Lexington don't want stations, don't argue, just run underneath.
@wordshaper @dr2chase according to this advocacy page, there's already an existing stub tunnel going out of the station to Thorndike Field, which development shouldn't change, and would allow something along/under Minuteman ROW to arlington center and beyond (mass ave? rt 3 to Burlington?) https://extendtheredline.org/
@bikepedantic @dr2chase Oh, nice! Yeah, absolutely, they should cost this out. TBH they should just run the damn thing under Rt 3 and the next time they need to rebuild 3 (which they will at some point) they should use the lane shutdown opportunity to cut'n'cover a rail tunnel under it.