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If you're visiting Boston for a weekend and would like to avoid a major headache, park your car somewhere away from downtown and take the T into the city. Good places to do that are Riverside station. It's right near the interchange between Route 128 and the Mass Pike. Also Alewife station on the Red Line, if you're coming in from the North or by Route 2. But if you're planning to live in Boston, don't expect a fast commute anywhere unless you're riding a bike. The T is actually terribly overcrowded, slow and unreliable. I cannot recount the number of times that I was riding a bus or a train and it broke down or failed to show up according to schedule. It happens way too often. So if you're in Boston for business, or need to get somewhere on time, just take a cab and hope the cabbie knows where he's going or ride a bike like I do. They have a lot of bike courriers in Boston because of all the traffic problems. I also believe the MBTA is the only public transportation system in the world that has an entire website dedicated to how much it sucks. Check out the link to the bad transit website below: Leave a Comment Theme: BicycleWebsite: http://www.badtransit.com
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$1.25 for a subway token and $1 for a bus ticket. 5 lines available. Blue, Red, Green, Orange, Silver Lines. Leave a Comment Theme: Bus
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(Continued) Here's where the weird part starts: the farther you get from downtown the most probable it is that the metro will run right on the street, as if it was a tram. The "stations" become then a bench or two - very much like a bus stop - where you wait for the train to pass by. Now: when you're going inbound people make a line at the beginning of the track, and you must hop on the first car and pay your exact fee to the driver... this is not practic at all under my point of view, especially at rush hours when many people are waiting to get on the train. Sometimes - or so I was told - there are so many people waiting to get in the train that the driver just lets you ride it without paying for it, in order not to delay the train's departure more than necessary....... this is not that bad! The best part is that when you're going outbound (towards the outskirts) from one of these stations you don't have to pay! The ride is for free... You must hop in the train at an "open air" station so this rule can apply. A good example is one of the green lines (there are 4-5 branches of it), which has a station right in front of the Museum of Fine Arts: this station is on the open air & has no booths to get in, so if you're going towards the outskirts of town you can take the metro there for free. Remember: if you go inbound, you ALWAYS have to pay no matter where you start your journey! Speaking about the green line: as I said, it splits in several different lines. So you have to be careful when riding the train: make sure it holds the letter (D, E, etc.) of the line which will take you to your final destination (some or all of them pass by the same track!), otherwise you'll end up somewhere else! It's somewhat complicate but once you get used to it I suppose it's just like riding any other metro... Leave a Comment Theme: Subway/MetroWebsite: www.mbta.com
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