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aray25 t1_jcwnb0j wrote

Reply to comment by obsoletevernacular9 in Does anyone live in Cambridge-Boston-Brookline WITH a baby and WITHOUT a car? by Bostonosaurus

There was a temporary ramp at Union for a while because the elevator wasn't ready.

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obsoletevernacular9 t1_jcxr7zd wrote

Makes sense, I haven't been back since it was finished.

The original union plan had no elevator and a type of low grade ramp that was pretty far from the stop. It ended up being something like .4 or .5 miles to enter the station exposed to the elements if you were in a wheelchair, pushing a stroller, etc.

The temporary one wasn't bad. My pushback at the East station was that they combined the station entrance ramp for everyone (there are no stairs) with the CPX exit / entrance ramp.

It's pretty foreseeable that there will be collisions in the future.

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