MBTA Community meeting on Sliver Line Rte So. Station to City Point

[Karen Okland Wepsic]

The MBTA has posted to its website an announcement of a community
meeting on August 3rd to discuss the Silver Line Route from South
Station to City Point. Here is the full text of the announcement:

Meeting Date
8/3/2005

Meeting Time
6:30 PM

Subject of Meeting
Silver Line Service between South Station and City Point

Location
Tynan School, 650 East Fourth Street, South Boston, Ma 02127

MBTA Attendees
Silver Line Personnel



The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) has scheduled a
public meeting to discuss the existing Silver Line (SL3) service
between South Station and City Point. At this meeting, MBTA personnel
will address any community concerns and allow for a question/answer
period. The meeting is scheduled for:

Wednesday, August 3, 2005
Tynan School
650 East Fourth Street
South Boston, MA 02127
6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.


The MBTA urges all interested parties to attend this informational
meeting. The location is accessible to persons with disabilities.


Karen Wepsic

[d***@my-deja.com]

Post by Karen Okland Wepsic
The MBTA has posted to its website an announcement of a community
meeting on August 3rd to discuss the Silver Line Route from South

Is the idea that some day there will be a SL2 route to the Marine
Park and an SL3 route to City Point? The current SL2/3 route is very
circuitous, and doesn't actually penetrate the residential
neighborhood on the outside end.

If the answer is, "Yes, there are supposed to be two routes some
day," then my next question is, "What are they waiting for?"

Dan

[Jonathan White]

Post by d***@my-deja.com
Is the idea that some day there will be a SL2 route to the Marine
Park and an SL3 route to City Point? The current SL2/3 route is very
circuitous, and doesn't actually penetrate the residential
neighborhood on the outside end.

When the SL2 and SL3 routes were first established, they *were*
separate routes, but they were combined into one convoluted route
fairly recently. There is very little ridership beyond BMIP anyhow,
even with the part time extension to P Street, so it isn't exactly
turning people off the service... that already happened when the
"double parking is a right" lobby managed to prevent the Silver Line
from serving Broadway.

Post by d***@my-deja.com
If the answer is, "Yes, there are supposed to be two routes some
day," then my next question is, "What are they waiting for?"

They're waiting for enough ridership to justify a separate route.

When I first saw this thread, the first thing that ran through my mind
is that the meeting's going to be about how Silver Line service to City
Point is such a failure and must be discontinued. We'll see...

--
Jonathan N. White
West Boylston (after nine years in Southie), Massachusetts

[JMello]

When I first saw the meeting notice, I assume that the MBTA was going
to try one more time to get around the
"double-parking-is-a-God-given-right" crowd and route the buses down
East Broadway and East Fourth Street.

We'll see.