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One of the most significant issues in the Boston Subway system will not show up on a chart like this one. Right now, one of the busiest stations in the T system

One of the most significant issues in the Boston Subway system will not show up on a chart like this one. Right now, one of the busiest stations in the T system is shutdown with a planned closure of over two years. Do you commute from the north part of the city to the west part of the city? Plan an extra hour per day for the next 30 months or so.

bernardom 12y ago
Wow, I didn't realize how badly the Government Center station shutdown was affecting people. I presume you're talking about coming in on the Blue line and trying to get to the green. What's the best strategy- get out at State and walk to Park street? Or take the Orange to Downtown Crossing and walk the tunnel to Park? Boston's really into transit-disrupting projects. Big Dig aside, the Longfellow is (mostly) out of commission for... three...years...
- danielweber 12y ago
  the Longfellow is (mostly) out of commission for... three...years... As a former resident, yipes. Sometimes it feels like they're trying to measure just how hard people want to live here.
  - bernardom 12y ago
    Yeah, it's quite disruptive, especially to people commuting to Kendall from the North Shore. Thankfully, the red line is still going, bike/pedestrian access is still allowed, and one car lane is open Boston-bound.
didgeoridoo 12y ago
To clarify: it used to be possible to transfer from the Blue Line (serving the airport and parts of the north shore) to the Green Line (serving much of the inner metro west) at a single stop — Government Center, which is now closed for renovations. For the next couple of years, getting from the airport or north shore to metro west is a Blue > Orange > Green transfer, which is definitely much more of a hassle. It would have been nice for them to leave a corridor open between the Green & Blue trains at Gov't Center, but then you'd have the liability of people walking around inside a construction zone. I've never been happier that I work in Watertown. Edit: the blue line does not serve Charlestown. Brain fart.
- omegaworks 12y ago
  It's one of the really nice things about the Chicago Loop system - lines running to the city's inner core don't intersect at single points of failure in this way. I wish that Boston's RGBOSi system did this. it would make life so much easier getting from one line to another.
ghc 12y ago
Get a subway pass so you can do free tranfers on the surface. The transfer between State and Park takes 5 minutes on foot.
- andrewem 12y ago
  I used to commute from the Red line to the Blue line. In the mornings when I was in a hurry I would take the Green from Park to the now-closed Government Center and then pick up the Blue, but in the afternoons I would get out at State and walk to either Park or Downtown Crossing. As you say, it's only a few minutes' walk, and very pleasant to be in the heart of the city. Every so often in the morning the Green line was even delayed enough that it would have been faster to walk instead.

bernardom 12y ago

Wow, I didn't realize how badly the Government Center station shutdown was affecting people. I presume you're talking about coming in on the Blue line and trying to get to the green. What's the best strategy- get out at State and walk to Park street? Or take the Orange to Downtown Crossing and walk the tunnel to Park? Boston's really into transit-disrupting projects. Big Dig aside, the Longfellow is (mostly) out of commission for... three...years...

danielweber 12y ago
the Longfellow is (mostly) out of commission for... three...years... As a former resident, yipes. Sometimes it feels like they're trying to measure just how hard people want to live here.
- bernardom 12y ago
  Yeah, it's quite disruptive, especially to people commuting to Kendall from the North Shore. Thankfully, the red line is still going, bike/pedestrian access is still allowed, and one car lane is open Boston-bound.

didgeoridoo 12y ago

To clarify: it used to be possible to transfer from the Blue Line (serving the airport and parts of the north shore) to the Green Line (serving much of the inner metro west) at a single stop — Government Center, which is now closed for renovations. For the next couple of years, getting from the airport or north shore to metro west is a Blue > Orange > Green transfer, which is definitely much more of a hassle. It would have been nice for them to leave a corridor open between the Green & Blue trains at Gov't Center, but then you'd have the liability of people walking around inside a construction zone. I've never been happier that I work in Watertown. Edit: the blue line does not serve Charlestown. Brain fart.

omegaworks 12y ago
It's one of the really nice things about the Chicago Loop system - lines running to the city's inner core don't intersect at single points of failure in this way. I wish that Boston's RGBOSi system did this. it would make life so much easier getting from one line to another.

ghc 12y ago

Get a subway pass so you can do free tranfers on the surface. The transfer between State and Park takes 5 minutes on foot.

andrewem 12y ago
I used to commute from the Red line to the Blue line. In the mornings when I was in a hurry I would take the Green from Park to the now-closed Government Center and then pick up the Blue, but in the afternoons I would get out at State and walk to either Park or Downtown Crossing. As you say, it's only a few minutes' walk, and very pleasant to be in the heart of the city. Every so often in the morning the Green line was even delayed enough that it would have been faster to walk instead.