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- From: rdonahue@spdcc.com (Bob Donahue)
- Subject: Re: N. and S. Stations being connected?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.235313.13541@spdcc.com>
- Organization: insert anything here
- References: <1992Nov18.130123.2441@merrimack.edu> <1992Nov19.232850.16933@cs.umb.edu>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 23:53:13 GMT
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- >In article <1992Nov18.130123.2441@merrimack.edu> gemmellj@merrimack.edu writes:
- >>After the announcement earlier this week that Amtrack will run a new
- >>service from Boston to Portland, Me (with stops in Woburn, MA, Haverhill, MA,
- >>Exeter, NH, Durham, HN (on weekends),Dover, NH, Wells ME, Saco ME, with
- >>seasonal service to Old Orchard Beach, ME)
- >>I'm wondering how the Amtrack trains
- >>would get to the northshore because after all , N and S stations are not
- >>connected. Is connecting them part of the big dig???
-
- I donj't see how you could set this up... First off Haverhill and
- Woburn are on two different B&M tracks, although there *might*
- be a cross track that is still runable between them (single track)
- Isn't there one that goes basically from Wilmington to somewhere near
- the Gilette plant? But that would take some re-doing.
-
- Now if it were Wakefield and not Woburn that would make a
- lot more sense, though you still only have one track most of the way from
- Reading to Haverhill...
-
- They could just ferry X cars/etc. over from S--->N station
- without having to provide service that connects both. Presumably
- someone coming from N. NE going south would have to get off
- at N. Station and take the Orange/Green line to the Red line to S. Station,
- the same way just about everyone has to transfer once (or twice!) to
- get to Logan on the T.
-
- Aside: When if/ever are thry going to extend the Blue
- line to something near Charles St? That would allow for
- SOME sort of direct Red--->Blue transfer and eliminate the
- Alewife--->Park--->GovCen--->Aiport route (or the
- Alewife--->DowntownXing--->State--->Airport route)
- problem. I'd rather have smoene drive me to the airport and
- schedule my flights for off-peak than have to do *that*
- on a regular basis!
-
- For all that the T is a fairly decent system, it seems
- that a lot of the major connections aren't there (rail from
- N-->S stations, Blue->Red lines, Green Line across Somervillw
- etc.
-
- Bob
-