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- From: hrose@eff.org (Helen Trillian Rose)
- Subject: Re: Why did the Red line cross the tracks?
- In-Reply-To: edwardp@ra.cs.umb.edu's message of 24 Jul 92 22:06:49 GMT
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- References: <BETSYS.92Jul24144345@ra.cs.umb.edu>
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- Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 19:52:08 GMT
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- Edward> == Edward P. Piecewicz <edwardp@ra.cs.umb.edu>
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- Edward> In article <BETSYS.92Jul24144345@ra.cs.umb.edu> betsys@cs.umb.edu (Elizabeth Schwartz) writes:
- >
- >Does anyone know why, at Harvard Square, Outbound is up and Inbound is
- >down, but at Porter Square, Outbound is down and Inbound is up?
- >
- >I hadn't noticed this until my construction-worker friend pointed it
- >out, and now it is really bugging me.
- >
- >Since the Net knows EVERYTHING.....let's hear it!
- >--
-
- Edward> The net knows everything??? Oh well.
-
- Edward> I was under the impression that the closer you got to the
- Edward> Alewife station, the trains have to be further underground
- Edward> since Cambridge and Somerville are residential cities. Check
- Edward> out the DAVIS stop when you have a chance and take the Holland
- Edward> Street exit, see how steep the escalator and stairs are at that
- Edward> station!
-
- Davis' Holland Street is steep? You mean you've never been to Porter?
- :-)
-
- From what I remember in reading at the Transportation Library, they had
- to use Slurry Wall construction techniques (much like what they used at
- Back Bay) because the ground was unfavorable for building in.
-
- --Helen
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