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Capacity and Reliability Study

Public Open House

December 2019

BOS Capacity and Reliability Study | Open House

Tonight’s activities

• Learn about BOS needs, goals,

and objectives

• Review project concepts and

provide input

• Ask questions
• Share your ideas
• Take the survey at Station 5!

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BOS Capacity and Reliability Study | Purpose & Need

Why we’re doing this study

Running the Blue, Orange, and Silver lines through one tunnel creates serious challenges for Metro and customers, including crowding, managing construction and disruption, and lack of operational flexibility. We have studied these issues and identified potential solutions, but haven’t yet made a decision. As these problems persist, we need to agree on a fix. This study will determine that preferred solution.

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Where we’re focusing attention

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Why we’re doing it now

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Interlining creates (and compounds) delays and crowding

BOS Capacity and Reliability Study | Purpose & Need: Reliability

• Delays on one line cascade to the others
• Surges of delayed passengers at transfer

stations affect all lines

• Crowding on trains, platforms, escalators

creates significant safety issues

• Major disruptions can impact Yellow and

Green service

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Metro needs to maintain customer-focused service while rebuilding

But we lack the infrastructure to:

• Maneuver around work zones
• Minimize the extent and impacts of

single tracking

• Store and dispatch relief trains
• Vary service patterns

BOS Capacity and Reliability Study | Purpose & Need: Reliability

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BOS Capacity and Reliability Study | Purpose & Need: Capacity

The region is forecasted to add 1.5 million people, 650,000 households, and 1.1 million jobs by 2045. A lot of that growth will be in the study area.

Metro ridership in the study area will grow with development…

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…but we lack the capacity to meet current and future demand

BOS Capacity and Reliability Study | Purpose & Need: Capacity

• Core segments already at or
• ver peak carrying capacity
• Peak service in the core will

be severely crowded by 2040

• Will need both 100% 8-car

trains and higher frequencies

• 100% 8-car trains won’t solve

the problem, can’t increase frequencies while interlined

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Sharing the tunnel limits our ability to increase service

• Maximum of 26 trains per hour (TPH) through any tunnel/set of tracks
• Under 8-min headways we can deliver equal service, but not enough to meet demand
• Under 6-min peak schedule, Blue Line had to be reduced to 5 TPH
• Cannot improve peak headways and meet demand on all 3 lines

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Metro lacks flexibility to match service to demand, for more efficient use

• f scarce resources

BOS Capacity and Reliability Study | Purpose & Need: Flexibility

• Some places generate high

ridership but can’t get more service

• Other areas have less demand but

the same level of service

• Transit-oriented development would

boost ridership

• Additional infrastructure would let

Metro match service to demand

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The study will recommend projects that help meet our sustainability targets, strengthen our finances, reduce the region’s environmental footprint, and expand access to economic opportunity

BOS Capacity and Reliability Study | Purpose & Need: Sustainability

Metro will be a sustainability champion

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BOS Capacity and Reliability Study | Goals Goal 1: Provide Sufficient Rail Capacity to Serve Ridership Demand Goal 2: Improve Reliability and On-Time Performance Goal 3: Improve Operational Flexibility and Cost-Efficiency Goal 4: Provide Transportation Options That Support Sustainable Development and Strengthen Metro’s Finances

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Study timeline

• Regional input and consensus on a preferred solution/strategy
• Board approval of the preferred solution
• Funding and implementation plan

BOS Capacity and Reliability Study | Study Process

Target outcomes

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Concepts become specific alternatives Jan/Feb 2020

Public engagement

Round 1: Issues/Awareness

• Summer 2019
• Complete
• Website
• Pop-ups
• Handouts

Round 2: Alternatives

• Winter 2019
• In progress
• Public open houses
• Online survey
• Updated website

Round 3: Solutions

• Summer 2020
• Register for our

mailing list to hear about engagement

• pportunities

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BOS Capacity and Reliability Study | Other Engagement

Stakeholder committees

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Flexibility

Capacity

Reliability

BOS Capacity and Reliability Study | Open House

• Generate a “universe” of

potential options to be screened and evaluated by project team

• Final recommendation will be a

corridor strategy, consisting of both short-term and longer-term improvements.

• Please be creative and bold in

your suggestions!

Screening Criteria:

• Serves Study Area
• Purpose & Need
• BOS Goals
• Implementation

Timeline ≤ 20 yrs

Fall 2019 Spring 2020

Universe of Alternatives Refined Set of Alternatives

Open house/public engagement

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Draft project concepts

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There are many options for achieving the four study goals. You’ll see several

• f them on boards around the room tonight. They fall into two main

categories: operational and infrastructure improvements. We want to hear what you think about these draft concepts. Is there a way to improve one or more of them? Do you think we missed something? Tell the project team and take the survey at Station 5!