Lechmere

Those bike racks on buses aren't much good if the drivers won't let people with bikes use them

adamg — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:35:47 -0400

Today's only-in-T-land adventure comes from En Ki, who reports that when he got to Lechmere with his bike last night, the driver of the 80 bus closed the door and drove on without him rather than wait for him to put his bike on the rack. So he got on his bike, beat the bus to the next stop and the driver blew right past him. He then tried to catch up, found the bus coming back the other way, got to a bus stop - and the driver once again drove right by him.

... Next time I find myself in this situation, of course, I will ask myself "What Would Dan Grabauskas Do?"

Proposed new Green Line stops announced

adamg — Mon, 05 May 2008 20:05:38 -0400

The Cambridge Chronicle posts the new stops north of Lechmere proposed for the Green Line extension - including a relocated Lechmere.

Green Line hell

adamg — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 07:50:42 -0500

What are the odds that on the last Saturday before Christmas, there'd be more people than usual taking the Green Line from the T stop nearest the Cambridgeside Galleria? If you're a T manager, you apparently think "Oh, light travel day, let's just run single cars!" Cleary Squared recounts the last-train-out-of-Paris scene:

... No matter what car came forward, it was filled to capacity within seconds. And, like flies to a steaming pile of horseshit, whenever an empty car came forward, the sea of humanity followed, hoping to lay its maggot egg-like asses onto a seat. ....

Will Lechmere service eventually go the way of the Watertown and Arborway lines?

adamg — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 17:18:55 -0400

Hondo reports from North Station, where five straight Green Line trolleys simply turned around this morning instead of making the trip to Lechmere - and where one increasingly frantic commuter kept getting onto the tracks in the hopes of sussing out an actual Lechmere car:

This is what it has come to. The T is so horrible at providing a simple, reliable way around Boston that people are literally risking their lives to see if, or when, the next train is on the way. ...

Want to get to the new Lechmere station? Buy space at NorthPoint

Arborway — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:52:41 -0400

Another entry in the NorthPoint development saga:

It seems that only those living or working at NorthPoint will get easy access to the station.

Just what I wanted, another bait-and-switch.

Will she be blown to bits or exposed to massive doses of radiation?

adamg — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:55:58 -0400

Eeka reports she will be a volunteer victim in Operation Poseidon, an area-wide exercise designed to gauge the readiness of local emergency responders for a massive terrorist disaster:

... I'm scheduled to report to the CambridgeSide Galleria ass early on September 17 so I can be a bombing victim. I don't know yet if I'll be dead, injured, or just potentially contaminated by radioactivity. ...

Green Line returns to Lechmere next weekend

Ron Newman — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 10:56:57 -0500

Green Line service will return to Lechmere and Science Park stations on Saturday, November 12, according to this official T press release.

This will be welcome news for shoppers and employees of the CambridgeSide Galleria mall, as well as for Somerville residents transferring from the #80, #87, and #88 buses.