• Bike Route: Union Square, Somerville to Navy Yard, Charlestown

    Route facts Below, you will find information on a bike route that uses quiet streets, shared paths, shared sidewalks, and separated bike lanes between Union Square in Somerville and Navy Yard in Charlestown. In the past couple of years, cities and developers have made many changes to the streets that connect these two areas. With…

  • Culture: year end + new year traditions

    Are you someone, like me, who has year-end and new year traditions that only a few other people in your community celebrate? As we begin to close out 2022, I’ve been thinking about and planning for how I’ll be welcoming 2023. This time of year can be fraught and chaotic with many things coming to…

  • Transit: Validating your fare at the new Green Line stations

    To board a train at the new Green Line stations in Somerville and Medford, the MBTA requires riders to either (1) have a validation slip or (2) tap-after-you-board. This is because of the platform design on the northern branches to Union Square and Tufts University: when you board, the farebox is on the “wrong”, opposite…

  • Bike Route: Belmont Center to Cambridge Library

    Route facts Below, you will find information on a bike route that uses quiet streets, shared paths and sidewalks, and separated bike lanes between Belmont and Cambridge. Both Belmont and Cambridge made some major changes in 2022 that make this route much more comfortable to cycle. Start: Belmont Center, BelmontEnd: Cambridge Main Library, CambridgeBonus: Inman…

  • Transit: Where can you actually find a fare vending machine (in Cambridge and Somerville)?

    Last week, I wrote a quick post about where to buy fares and add value to a CharlieCard. Click here to read that post. Some other questions about that I think people wonder about with MBTA fares are: The first question involves a flowchart that I have not even finished yet. Maybe I’ll finish it…

  • Transit: Where to get a fare on the T?

    What is one thing you would change about buying fares on the T? I’m a regular bus and subway rider with a pass through work. But, others in my life have to pay for their own passes and trips. One thing that I would change about buying fares on the T is to make it…