----------------------------Original message---------------------------- 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 HEDBERG MAPS, INC ----------------------------------------------- Publishers of Professor Pathfinder Maps ----------------------------------------------- Production Office: [log in to unmask] Business office: [log in to unmask]