Recently, two State of Massachusetts transportation boards recently voted to approve the long awaited Green Line extension (maybe, hopefully, we’ll see, also the Feds are OK with the new plan). *This is huge news, especially if you are an avid transit user, like I am. *In the nearly six years I have worked in Back Bay and lived in Winter Hill I have never driven to work, relying on the bus network, and orange and red lines. The Green Line extension, for all it’s faults, *is*going to improve transit options for one of the most densely populated areas in not only the Boston region, but the entire country.
Being the armchair geographer I am, I wanted to take a quick glance at how the population in this relatively small area compared to other populations in Massachusetts using open data and open source software.*According to the 2010 census, nearly 73,000 people (including me!) live within a half mile of a proposed station. The extension will run through several densely populated neighborhoods, originating from Lechmere in Cambridge and branching into two lines; one terminating at Tufts University at the College Avenue stop, and the other ending in Union Square.
Let’s put those tightly packed 72,000+ people into perspective. With maps!
There are more people in this area than these 63*towns.
or these nine towns:
or these 22*towns:
No matter how you cut it, the Green Line Extension impacts a lot of people and will be a transformative project for the region.
How I made the maps
I used QGIS Essen to build the buffers and plot the stations. *The boundary data came from MassGIS, including the*2010 census block dataset, and town dataset. For the background map, I used*Stamen’s toner basemap. *To confirm the population estimate, I used information from the*Green Line Extension Project Environmental Assessment and Section 4(f) Evaluation*(table 6.15-1)
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Being the armchair geographer I am, I wanted to take a quick glance at how the population in this relatively small area compared to other populations in Massachusetts using open data and open source software.*According to the 2010 census, nearly 73,000 people (including me!) live within a half mile of a proposed station. The extension will run through several densely populated neighborhoods, originating from Lechmere in Cambridge and branching into two lines; one terminating at Tufts University at the College Avenue stop, and the other ending in Union Square.
Let’s put those tightly packed 72,000+ people into perspective. With maps!
There are more people in this area than these 63*towns.
or these nine towns:
or these 22*towns:
No matter how you cut it, the Green Line Extension impacts a lot of people and will be a transformative project for the region.
How I made the maps
I used QGIS Essen to build the buffers and plot the stations. *The boundary data came from MassGIS, including the*2010 census block dataset, and town dataset. For the background map, I used*Stamen’s toner basemap. *To confirm the population estimate, I used information from the*Green Line Extension Project Environmental Assessment and Section 4(f) Evaluation*(table 6.15-1)
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