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Posted by Stephen Bauman on Sat May 23 18:40:04 2020, in response to Re: What is the Steepest Grade in the Subway System?, posted by AlM on Sat May 23 17:56:16 2020. I'm just not seeing anything that steep on mytopo.com.I did say that DeLorme's Topo USA didn't settle arguments. It's got very strange 3 meter contour intervals in that area. I'm not a subscriber to mytopo.com and refuse to go for the trial offer. I did look at the USGS topo for the Newton quadrangle 1:24000. It can be viewed for free. It's got 10 ft contours. There are a lot of them crossing Commonwealth, just east of Warren. I lived on Mapleton Street in Brighton The MTA screwed me. The fare used to be 20 cents to go on the Commonwealth Ave car to Mass Sta and then take the Mass Ave bus to MIT. The fare was 15 cents for a surface line without transfer and 20 cents with a transfer. They changed the fare structure about two months into the semester. No transfers and 20 cents for a subway and 10 cents for a surface line. That was a 50% fare increase. I could take the Commonwealth car and change at Park St to go to Kendall Sq. The walk in winter was murder. I was an RA at the I-Lab, way on the other side of Mass Ave. I moved back to Cambridge, near Harvard Sq, the next year. That brought the fare down to a dime. The ambiance at Harvard Sq was also better than Brighton's. |
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