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I've just run into an odd bit of trivia:
 
Anyone who has done street mapping for any length of time will have run
into "paper streets", which are platted or planned, and which show up on
city maps as a right-of-way, but which in fact are impassable. For one
thing, if you know where to look, they are a good way to see if the map
has actually been field-checked.
 
If you look at the Boston Transit systems maps, paper or electronic, you
will see a reference to the Green line "E" section running between
Brigham Circle and the end of the line, Arborway station. Indeed, the
MBTA has a fare structure for Arborway, in spite of there having been no
trains between Heath and Arborway for nigh unto ten years. See the MBTA
page for Arborway at
 
http://www.mbta.com/~imagemap/ELINE?20,18
 
and their page for the system map at
 
http://www.mbta.com/trmpro.html.
 
For a different view, see the unofficial memorial page for the Arborway
line at
 
http://members.aol.com/netransit2/arborway/arborway.html
 
Apparently, the politics of mass transit in Boston are hot enough that
it's easier to maintain the fiction of a connecting train instead of
deleting it from maps.
 
I'm curious if anyone has run into similar "paper transit lines"
elsewhere. I imagine the modern equivalent of the famous "Charlie on the
MTA" waiting patiently for a train that it says right on the map goes
through...
 
 
Cheers
Nat Case
 
 
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