Park Street info booth is closed

[Scott Moore]

One of the longest standing sources of information on the Boston's MBTA
has now been closed as a cost saving measure. Previously providing
schedule information for all MBTA services, it now is an Inspector's
booth.

It's odd to think that the MBTA and its predecessors have maintained an
information booth on that very spot since the subway was opened in 1897,
and now it is no longer active.

MBTA information can still be obtained via the internet
http://www.mbta.com or by calling the T at 222-3200.

Scott Moore
The New England Transportation Site
http://members.aol.com/netransit

[Robert Coe]

On Tue, 25 Jun 1996 06:43:02 -0400, Scott Moore <scm...@lynx.neu.edu>
wrote:
: One of the longest standing sources of information on the Boston's MBTA

: has now been closed as a cost saving measure. Previously providing
: schedule information for all MBTA services, it now is an Inspector's
: booth.

OTOH, have you seen the latest (1996) official MBTA map? They passed
them out at work the other day to people who get monthly passes through
payroll deduction. I've been looking at Boston subway maps for more
than forty years, and this may be the best one yet. One feature that
differentiates it from its predecessors is that it shows the names of
*all* the Green Line stops. Do you know what line "Back of the Hill" is
on? Can you pinpoint Griggs Street? Packard's Corner? Dean Road?
Brandon Hall? They've also got little maps of the bus routes around
some of the more confusing transfer stations. And, of course, the
address of the MBTA Web page. The map I got was marked "Free" and
"Courtesy of Citizens Bank". Whether there are other banks of
businesses that distribute them, I don't know.
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[K. M. Peterson]

In article <31d663ea....@News.TIAC.NET>
b...@1776.COM (Robert Coe) writes:

> OTOH, have you seen the latest (1996) official MBTA map?

According to today's _Globe_, it's available at "nearly all" subway
stations. I suspect that the map graphics are those from the web page,
but I haven't gotten one yet.

I will soon, though.

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"The opinions expressed in this posting are not necessarily those of
my employer"

[Scott Moore]

Robert Coe wrote:

> OTOH, have you seen the latest (1996) official MBTA map?

Yeah, it's been available for a little while if you know where to find
'em. though they just went "public". They're okay, though they have a
bad omen on them.

[snip]

> I've been looking at Boston subway maps for more
> than forty years, and this may be the best one yet. One feature that
> differentiates it from its predecessors is that it shows the names of
> *all* the Green Line stops. Do you know what line "Back of the Hill" is
> on?

Yeah, the Arborway line - which is no longer shown in its entirety on
the new map. It looks more and more like the T has no intentions of
restoring the trolleys to Jamaica Plain as promised years ago.

[snip]

> The map I got was marked "Free" and
> "Courtesy of Citizens Bank". Whether there are other banks of
> businesses that distribute them, I don't know.

They're all free - thanks to Citezen's Bank.

[John Bowe]

Yesterday, attendants at both Kendall Sq and Harvard were clueless about
new maps. One said to me "don't believe everything you read in the paper."

-jb

[Ian Fisher]

Scott Moore <scm...@lynx.neu.edu> wrote:

>Robert Coe wrote:

>> OTOH, have you seen the latest (1996) official MBTA map?

>Yeah, it's been available for a little while if you know where to find
>'em. though they just went "public".

I picked one up from the Park St. info booth around the start of May.
The map compares favourably with many other transit system maps around
in its clarity and pleasing design. The corporate sponsorship isn't
too blatant either.

Closing the Park St. booth was, however, not a good step. Perhaps the
surly woman I dealt with there helped deflate public opposition to the
closure...

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