In February 2006 Massachusetts State Transportation Secretary John Cogliano proposed a much less expensive plan that would eliminate most of the tunneling running the Silver Line on the surface via Kneeland Street to a new tunnel portal on Essex Street near South Station The estimated cost of this proposal is 94 million and it includes expansion of Silver Line service to Copley Square Grove Hall Mattapan and Ashmont connecting at the Fairmount commuter rail line Run the buses further on Kneeland Street and then up a new wrong way corridor on Surface Road past the ever congested Beech Street area Could they make the Silver Line any more of a bad joke than it already is Common Names