WE BELIEVE THERE is an affordable pathway toward establishment of a robust late-night transit service on the MBTA, building on the T’s existing early morning bus service. Our plan would not just offer service on Friday and Saturday nights, as the recently canceled late-night experiment did, but instead offer service all night, every night, and be geared primarily toward getting people to their late-night […]
Ari Ofsevit
Posted inOpinion, Transportation
DiCara is wrong about Boston buses
IN A RECENT Â CommonWealth piece, Larry DiCara decried the routing of MBTA buses through downtown Boston, which he said was clogging its already congested streets. If you look at downtown Boston at rush hour, you’ll see a lot of congestion. Pedestrians zigzag across intersections. Bicyclists pedal along shoulders, or, when they’re lucky enough, in a […]