New(?) MBTA Trip Planner?
Dick Monahan
A friend just asked for a route from Arlington to Kendall Square. It told
him to walk to Mass Ave and take the Green Line toward Government Center,
then transfer at Harvard to the "412652" line to Kendall.
Dick.
Pete from Boston
I just tried this same query (assuming you mean Arlington station, not
the town). It suggested that from my starting piont of Tremont Street
and Jefferson Street (in Bay Village, near the Mass Pike), I should
take the commuter rail from South Station to Government Center (only a
three-minute trip!), then a four-minute ride on the Blue Line to
Kendall. Alternatively, it said I could go via Rott St., which, as far
as I can tell, is somewhere in Germany.
Itinerary #1
Depart TREMONT ST & JEFFERSON ST At 12:24 PM
Route Commuter Rail Icon # - SOUTH STATION At 12:24 PM
Arrive CAMBRIDGE ST & CENTER PLAZA - GOV'T CTR At 12:27 PM
Transfer to:
Depart GOVERNMENT CENTER STATION - BLUE LINE EA At 12:35 PM
Route Subway Icon TO At 12:35 PM
Arrive KENDALL/MIT STATION RED LINE NORTHBOUND At 12:39 PM
Itinerary #2
Depart TREMONT ST & JEFFERSON ST At 12:24 PM
Route Commuter Rail Icon # - SOUTH STATION At 12:24 PM
Arrive CAMBRIDGE ST & CENTER PLAZA - GOV'T CTR At 12:27 PM
Transfer to:
Depart GOVERNMENT CENTER STATION - BLUE LINE EA At 12:41 PM
Route Subway Icon ROTT ST At 12:41 PM
Arrive KENDALL/MIT STATION RED LINE NORTHBOUND At 12:45 PM
David Z Maze
From Porterish to Lechmereish ("home" to "work"), apparently I can
take the Green Line across Somerville. And here I thought that wasn't
going to be built for a while yet. At least it's free. (Either the
87 or 88 bus works fine, and the trip planner seems to find both, or
at least, it routes me to either bus stop.)
--dzm
Phil Sunde
Cool - I can go from MIT to Union Square, Somerville by train. I'm a
little confused - but I seem to start by catching a train on Vassar
Street off Mass Ave to get to South Station. And here I thought all I
had to do was catch the CT 2 bus.
Phil
Stephen Peters
> In article <y68fyhv...@contents-vnder-pressvre.mit.edu>,
> David Z Maze <dm...@mit.edu> wrote:
>
>> "Dick Monahan" <di...@dickmonahan.com> writes:
>>
>>> Didn't I read that a "new improved" MBTA trip planner had been installed?
Wow. They really screwed this up recently. I put in the same trip I
put in yesterday, and now it suggests that the best way from Harvard
Square to BCA in the South End is to take a Green Line C train to
Watertown Square, then a quick hop on a nonexistent commuter rail to
Cambridge St. and Fifth, at which point I can apparently walk less than
half a mile to the South End.
Does anyone test software before deploying it these days?
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John F. Carr
Stephen Peters <por...@portnoy.org> wrote:
>Wow. They really screwed this up recently. I put in the same trip I
>put in yesterday, and now it suggests that the best way from Harvard
>Square to BCA in the South End is to take a Green Line C train to
>Watertown Square,
Obviously they mean "A train".
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John Carr (j...@mit.edu)
Pete from Boston
Similarly, I can hop on one of the numerous Green Line streetcars still
plying the lanes of Somerville Ave, one of which will drop me off on
Temple Street in Cambridge, the one-way side street off Central Square
next to the Bank of America.
>From there, it's a quick walk to that same C train to Watertown.
What's perplexing is that to get from Inman Square to Watertown Square,
I must first take an eastbound C train from a ways down Prospect, to
Harvard Square. From there I change to a westbound C train, which takes
me the rest of the way into Watertown.
Jay Levitt
> A friend just asked for a route from Arlington to Kendall Square. It told
> him to walk to Mass Ave and take the Green Line toward Government Center,
> then transfer at Harvard to the "412652" line to Kendall.
Ridiculous. That line stopped running years ago.
Jay
Steve Kl.
in Malden, I'm supposed to pick up a train at Huntington and
Exeter, and take that to Highland Avenue and Medford Street, and then from
there take a Middleborough/Lakeville train to "Highland Avenue opposite
Pine Street"
Serious, serious screw ups.
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-- Steve Kl.