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The Duke of Dedham
By massmarrier on Sat, 07/18/2015 - 11:06am
Gov. Mike Dukakis (a.k.a. Prof. MBTA) was going into the Dedham Costco this morning as I exited. I hailed him and of course had to be the jerk saying the obvious, that he arrived by car instead of public transit. He laughed and also said the obvious, that any combination of MBTA services would be arduous and time-consuming.
That gave him the segue into his communication with Costco management. He's been pitching a Boston store. He says he told them it would be well received and profitable. He pointed out that his daughter lives in San Francisco where she is only 10 minutes from an in-town Costco.
I'm with him. I'd rather not drive to Dedham if I could take the T to a Boston Costco. That is a small but worthy crusade.
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Comments
Enhance Existing Infrastructure
What about extending a high-speed people mover from Wellington Station over the Mystic River to the Costco there? Maybe a monorail to that little shopping area in Everett/Chelsea?
Or perhaps a more realistic approach is a new station stop at Gateway Center, Everett via existing Commuter Rail lines serviced by a DMU. The line could be express running between Gateway center and North station.
Better still, let the DMU also service the Chelsea Commuter stop and remove it from the Nbtp/Rkpt Commuter lines. Add in a stop at Shawmut St, Revere (aka Revere Beach/Wonderland) and another "connector" to Assembly from the Commuter Rail lines (Assembly East? Assembly Field?) and now you have a high-speed short-route that is more frequent than Commuter Rails, relieves pressure on existing commuter rail lines, and creates service to an area that could always use a little more growth. I'm sure we could convince the businesses at Gateway Center to "support" most of their station costs. The station at Shawmut St, Revere would really be the only major cost besides the DMUs servicing this new route.