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Re: PHOTOS: MBTA MPXpress Locomotive #010 In Delivery |
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Posted by RIPTA42HopeTunnel on Thu Jan 13 10:17:36 2011, in response to Re: PHOTOS: MBTA MPXpress Locomotive #010 In Delivery, posted by aem7ac on Wed Jan 12 00:50:20 2011. I think your thinking and/or information is outdated. Beginning in the 1960s, Boston & Maine railroad promoted a little-known station called "Mishawum" that eventually was replaced by the Anderson RTC. Even today, several trains call at the old Mishawum station to serve reverse-commute and exurb-to-suburb commuters due to passenger markets that were developed back then...Whether reverse-commuting was happening is a matter of debate; if it happened it wasn't in huge numbers, but not because the service isn't geared for it: B&M continues to host at one reverse commuter train on the Haverhill Line, and in fact the Lowell Line has fairly good off-peak and reverse-direction service.Reverse peak service on the Lowell line is good, primarily because the trains have to go north before they can go south again. Anderson is located in a low density industrial park with almost no major generators in walking distance, and NO bus service besides an express bus to the airport. It does have 1,500 parking spaces for suburbanites commuting to Boston, though. For those of us working within a few miles of the station, there are long local bus rides from the Wellington or Alewife subway stations. At around the same time, the Route 128 station was added on the south side, and transit-oriented development sprung up in the vicinity of that station. The Westwood Station development has been under construction for decades and is still mostly vacant lots. The only office building near the station is Kinki-Sharyo's U.S. headquarters. There's more low density industrial about a mile south of the station. |
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