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Developer buys the land it would need for proposed apartment complex near Readville station
By adamg on Fri, 04/08/2016 - 7:37am
Bldup reports developer Ad Meliora recently plunked down $2.1 million for an old industrial site across the Milton Street bridge from the Readville train station.
Last fall, when the company had a purchase-and-sale agreement, it proposed a 240-apartment, three-building complex for the 2.7-acre parcel.
At a neighborhood meeting, residents expressed concerns about traffic given that the bridge and its intersections with Hyde Park Avenue and Neponset Valley Parkway suck. They also questioned whether the project would truly be transit oriented given that train service from Readville kind of sucks.
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kinda sucks
Lived there. The 32 bus isnt too bad, but the fairmount line is a complete joke especially it costing 6 dollars at readville. Oh and don't even bother with Franklin line totally useless. Readville is just a highly underserved and underinvested area of Boston that could benefit from at minimum from zone 1A treatment. I applaud the developer for giving Readville a chance, but more work by other developers and better treatment from thr MBTA and city need to happen to make the area thrive.
Fairmount line
First of all the fairmount line should be zone 1A at all stops, including readville. Really it should be converted to an electrified subway-like service or utilize DMU but that seems too far out of reach.
As it exists the Fairmount line runs very reliably (I take it twice daily fairmount station to south station daily) it doesnt run often enough, however. It is ridiculous the price difference between readville and the rest of the stations.
This has been covered many times.
Fares are based on distance. People think it should cost less to come in from Readville via the fuzzy logic of "but we're Bostonians!". This despite the fact that they have to travel as far as those going from Lynn to Nth Sta (and curiously, are charged the same). Which gets us back to our knack of raising fees on Other People (The T needs money!) , but balking when those charges apply to us. People want to spend billions to extend the CR to Fall River and New Bedford. What do they think will happen they tell people what the fares will be?
Its not for lack of understanding
Its not that we dont understand that it is currently based on distance it is that we think a single dimensional fare structure (singularly based on distance) is an insufficient way to base your price structure. It should take into account, population density, accessibility to other transit options, among other factors. We want to encourage people to ride transit afterall, dont we?
Ah yes, "other factors".
Again, everyone is for raising fees on someone else, but when they find out they themselves have to pay that then it's time to whip out the other factors. Suddenly someone comes up with the ridiculous ideas about how they shouldn't have to pay based on density. Or some other justification will come up to explain why you shouldn't have to pay, in the name of Social Justice.
Blame the game then
The pricing is based on distance. People in Brockton pay more. People in Lowell pay more. People in Lynn pay just as much. If you think that by flattening the fare structure will help out Readville folk, ask yourself what happened when the T decided to allow subway-bus transfers for free. The subway fare took off, since there is no such thing as a free ride.
You'd be the first to shriek
When the prices at Wedgemere, Winchester, and several Newton stops also went down, as they are same distance away.
That bridge is a bottleneck
That bridge is a bottleneck at rush hour, but there are two train lines that stop at that station. If that's not transit-oriented, then transit-oriented doesn't exist.
You're so optimistic!
Come down here and try to rely on those two train lines to get anywhere.