Bingo...they are aiming to put the train yard in Widett following successful relocation of the Food Market.
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A MassDOT environmental report details plans to expand South Station over nine years that would hinge on getting the Postal Service to finally abandon its giant facility along Fort Point Channel and moving the food-distribution companies of Widett Circle someplace else.
New MassDOT Draft Environmental Assessment released:
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Relevant section on the layover(s) starts here:
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Widett + Cold Storage storage schematic (30 trainsets):
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The new plan is to go all-in on Widett BUT continue advancing expansion of Readville Yard 2 by 8 trainsets with a new sound wall as part of the proposal. Beacon Park has been transferred
out of the SSX study and re-grouped under the Pike realignment, with intent to advance new concepts for the layover there. However, that de-coupling cedes control of the final fate of already shrunken design for that layover to MassHighway and Harvard. While they're covering all bases with prelim design on all 3 sites, the expansion of Readville--which is MORE trainset storage than the previous draft study specced--appears to be a hedge that BP may not be available when all is said and done if shrinking/deleting it significantly lowers the cost of the Pike realignment (it will: shorter overpasses and more real estate revenue offsets).
Stay tuned, but looks like the perma-fix for southside storage is very real and possibly imminent.