| Between February 2009 and December 2010, we spoke to hundreds of people about the future. A few dozen of these people were nice enough to make predictions about the future. Some of these predictions took the form of elaborate short stories, or intricate drawings or maps. Click on their names to see what these participants submitted to the project. (Note: to see these predictions in context, click on "Timeline & findings", above.)
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Love your ideas and maps.... only suggested addition would be a BIGGER ring line that runs in the middle of 128 (like the BART system in San Francisco that runs down the center of the highways) and links all the suburban rail lines (Gloucester-North Beverly-Reading-Mishawum-Brandeis-Wellesley-Needham Heights-Dedham-Route 128-Quincy Center). And links to the 128 Amtrak station. For now, the only way to get from one suburb to another is to ride into Boston and back out again - way too long. Tens of thousands of commuters live near one part of 128 and commute along it to another, and crowd the highway instead.... ... and as for when, well, the sooner the better, but things are so slow to happen in older cities..... Following is an image of the BART train - in this case next to, not in the middle of, the highway; and then a map of the system. (It happens to be radial, just like Boston's, however note that the 'node' is not in SF itself but across the bay in Oakland, and that the lines tend to follow the highways; in other words, if you were going from most of the terminal stations on this map to other ones, you'd be following the track lines anyway (with the exception of Fremont to Millbrae - there is a bridge over the bay to the south; and there is also a highway between Walnut Creek-Dublin-Fremont...... maybe they'll add a track there some day).
It supposedly has around 350,000 riders per day....
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