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In <Bs4n4K.C8K@world.std.com> adamg@world.std.com (Adam M Gaffin) writes:
<Washington Street has become a major thoroughfare, and there's just
>no way you can squeeze both LRVs and cars through Brighton Center.

	It is true, for half a mile or so around Brighton Center, you
couldn't pass an LRV.  So what?  You can't pass the buses now.  It's
not like the trains are going to be parked, they are going to be
moving along.

<One proposal somebody raised: extend the trackless trolley line from
<Watertown Square, which not only would solve the diesel problem but
<provide better access to Harvard Square.

	Problem: The bus could not go beyond the end of Brighton Ave,
without installing new power lines, since the can't share them with
the B line.  You'd have to build a turn around for the buses at the
corner of Brighton & Comm and there is no room.

<Does it really make sense to spend $250 million to restore commuter rail
<to the South Shore, or even $50 million to extend it to Worcester when so
<few people will use it?  Why not use that money for improving mass transit
<where people would actually take advantage of it?

	What makes you think people won't?  From personal experience I
know that large numbers of people take the "purple line" in from
Providence, So. Attleboro, and Attleboro stations.  Why wouldN'T
people on the South Shore and west of 128 (or 495) make use of the
commuter rail?  Every been on the SouthEast Expressway or at the
Weston Tolls at rush hour?

	I belive if public transportation is there and reliable people
will use it.

->Spike