Tag: MBTA
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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…
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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…
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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…
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April 2018 Transit News Rundown
A rundown of transit news, editorials, and opinion that has appeared in Boston and Cambridge newspapers and online media. NEWS ** [$] Subscriptions may be required to view this content 4.1 – With New Services and Big Plans MBTA Buses Are Getting Some Love, Boston Globe [$] 4.3 – Could the MBTA Finally Connect the…
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Headlines – April 15, 2014
I took a moment today at 2:49 pm to offer prayer for those 3 people who lost their lives one year ago today and for the health and continued recovery of the 260 or so injured in the Boston Marathon Bombing of just one year ago. While praying I remembered the police officer as well as one of…
Andrew Reker 