Talk:Urban Ring Project

message: This sounds to me like slow-- transit... Tons of buses going to Kendall and Central which are already congested areas. IMHO The urban links should have gone around the outter spokes of the current MBTA, e.g. Charlestown-Wellington(orange line), Wellington-Medford, Medford-Arlington, Arlington-Alewife(Red Line), Alwife-Belmont, Belmont-Watertown, Watertown-Brookline(Green Line), Brookline-Jamaica Plain(Orange line), Jamaica Plain-Ashmont(Red line). IMHO- or something close to that. Cambridge's Central Square area doesn't need anymore buses, the Red line is pretty much faster than the bus now anyway. I don't know of anyone that would abandon the red line at Central to take a bus into Boston instead.  The CT1 is also redundant with the #1(regular) bus route. While the CT2 is partly redundent I think to the #47? or (that other bus which goes from Central Sq. to Longwood Medical area.), CT7 Sounds like a mix of the #1 and #28 bus routes.  CT8 sounds like a mix of the current #91 and #47 bus routes. CT9 is pretty much the current #57 and #66(or #86) bus routes. I think the urban link is a lot of big money that's destined to be a crowded flop. Like for example why are they still planning to focus soo much on Lechmere? Shouldn't they goto locations where the green line is proposed to be extended to? Another example the Blue line (currently stopping at Bowdoin) is in the planning to be extended to Charles MGH(red line), that means coming from the west you can get off at Charles MGH board the blue line, and bypass the green/orange lines when going straight to the airport.  That same action nullifies the need for part of the BRT1. CaribDigita 21:32, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia isn't a discussion board for the merits of the project. -- Beland (talk) 04:39, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: Currently, the Massachusetts Executive Office of Transportation (EOT) is advancing the study of Phase II of the Urban Ring.  In addition, many of the Phase I recommendations from the MIS were never implemented.  In short, the current EOT study work renders most of the MIS description of Phase I and II quite out of date.  An update is needed. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 65.118.130.130 (talk) 17:34, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Updated today. -- Beland (talk) 04:39, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

text: I am thinking about doing a major overhaul of this page, reorganizing it so that it is easier to find pertinent info. Changing section headding to things like "proposed route" and the like as oposed to the titles of the documents. anyone wan tto help?--Found5dollar (talk) 18:01, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Description needs update 

message: I find this article very confusing. If i get it right, there are 3 proposed routes for the urban ring, but they have chosen to use the one under "Revised Draft EIR." If this is so, why are the other two proposed routes still on this page? Also, if this is the chosen route, should someone create a map showing what the line will look like compared to the already existing rapid transit lines?--Found5dollar (talk) 00:33, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confusion 

message: An Urban Ring Map   — Preceding unsigned comment added by Briancady413 (talk • contribs) 10:35, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: A clear map showing the proposed Urban Ring routing in relation to the existing and proposed hub-and-spoke services is still badly needed. Are all the maps in the planning reports rights-restricted?  They presumably were paid for with public money.  Reify-tech (talk) 15:25, 29 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Only federal government works and a couple state works are PD; Massachusetts works are not. The problem with trying to map the damn thing is that they keep changing scope. The project is pretty much DOA at this point, though, so I'll see what I can do with a custom map. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 16:08, 29 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: It's not pretty, but it's done. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 21:34, 29 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  How about adding a map of the projected route? 

message: It's hard to tell in this article what's reasonably current (say, within the last two years) and what's older.  Editors should try to add explicit dates to things (when reports are issued, and so on) so that it is clearer what is dated content and what isn't. Magic♪piano 12:42, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Dated info

message: What is the approx. round-trip time?  Seems like one slow route with the way how traffic is in those areas. In morning and afternoon traffic this route looks like it would take hours. CaribDigita (talk) 02:18, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Phase 2 - the initial BRT segment - was to have overlapping partial-loop services and no full-loop service. That's as far as they ever got on an EIS; Phase 3 was never fully scoped out. There are travel times for those listed on page ES-17 here. 32 minutes Boston Medical Center - LMA - Kendall - Sullivan; 19 minutes Wellington - Chelsea - Airport. I'll estimate 5 minutes Wellington - Sullivan and 20 BMC - Airport, and that gives us about 66 minutes for the loop. Page ES-42 gives somewhat contradictory numbers. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 05:35, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Approx round-trip time