By adamg on Sat., 8/26/2017 - 2:57 pm
The Globe reports Millennium Partners is beginning to talk up a $100-million proposal for a tramway from South Station to the Seaport.
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Something better ?
By dmk
Sat, 08/26/2017 - 8:08pm
What about this?
http://transitx.com/
Cheaper, scalable, affordable.
If you look closely, the video mock up is Boston.
No
By BlackKat
Sun, 08/27/2017 - 12:02am
Watching just a video of that for a few seconds gave me a headache. I can't imagine they would be silent and unobtrusive and someone will end up decapitated by a pod somehow.
There is no need for silly and gimmicky transport systems when perfectly ordinary ones will work just fine.
Most likely this would be a
By Chip Olson
Sat, 08/26/2017 - 8:54pm
Most likely this would be a gondola system, with lots of small 8-10-passenger cars going around continuously in a loop, as opposed to an aerial tramway like Portland's, with two large cars shuttling back and forth. Lots of these have been built for urban transport in recent years, particularly in Latin America. I don't know where this $100 million number comes from; they generally run about a tenth of that. You'd have to build the South Station terminal right above Summer St in order for the alignment to work, though.
*eye roll*
By cybah
Sun, 08/27/2017 - 9:07am
This just gets the big *eye roll*
While I appreciate the investment let's fix what we have.. by fixing tunneling under D street and fixing that interesection and adding more buses.
OR we can do Jim Alosi's idea (with datadyne007's (Tim) graphics) of BRT up and down Summer Street. It's wide enough for a center dedicated BRT lane, which would solve the traffic issues.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/dp35VVy.png[/img]
(See It Larger)
H/t ArchBoston
ITDP Block. Big Dig Block
By anon
Sun, 08/27/2017 - 2:26pm
Are you proposing that the Silver Line leave the South Boston Transitway Tunnel and allow Green Line trains to finally run underground through the Seaport? Yes! Oh wait. ITDP block. Big Dig block. Always read the fine print people
Lots of typical
By bulgingbuick
Sun, 08/27/2017 - 10:02am
Boston "we can't" reaction. A private developer will pay....?. Those puzzled by the driving vs. walking haven't driven through the Seaport during rush hour.
Although I am disappointed that as of this morning we are missing the proverbial reaction to everything new: "this will cause our public schools to have to close" and "community""leaders" opining about the negative effect on dog walkers in South Boston and other "community" leaders claiming that gondola's are racist.
Start spreading the newwwwzz.
By anon
Sun, 08/27/2017 - 10:19am
Start spreading the newwwwzz....I'm leaving todayyyyy....
Aerial gondola?
By Will LaTulippe
Sun, 08/27/2017 - 10:32am
Are they going to call it the Areola?
Only a real boob would come up with a name like that
By Brighton-ite
Sun, 08/27/2017 - 10:42am
N/T
You should keep abreast of gondola
By bulgingbuick
Mon, 08/28/2017 - 7:38pm
discussion.
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