By adamg on Tue., 9/2/2014 - 9:15 am 
At 5 a.m. today, the MBTA opened the new Assembly station on the Orange Line (the first new T stop since the T opened the new version of the Orange Line south of Chinatown in 1987). Stuart Spina was on hand and captured Ruthy Rickenbacker becoming the first paying passenger at the station.
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ah yes, but...
By John-W
Tue, 09/02/2014 - 9:29am
Who gets the bragging rights to spilling the first [fill in the bodily fluids] in the station??
It's already 9:30 AM
By Michael
Tue, 09/02/2014 - 9:30am
That ship has probably already sailed, so to speak
I'm sure...
By John-W
Tue, 09/02/2014 - 9:38am
...that there's a joke here about seamen....but I'm not so crass as to go there....
There's stripes on the fare
By gotdatwmd
Tue, 09/02/2014 - 11:27am
There's stripes on the fare gates. That's new!
Colored stripes?
By anon
Tue, 09/02/2014 - 12:10pm
They look as if they are orange stripes! Crazy. Welcome to the 21st century, T.
Yes, the fare gates are new
By David
Tue, 09/02/2014 - 12:27pm
I went to work by way of Assembly Station this morning. The fare gates are, indeed, different. The stripes you mentioned, and the Charlie Card targets are orange instead of black, and even the affirmative ding that sounds when your card registers is a little different.
Assembled
By Sarahwenig
Wed, 09/03/2014 - 3:34pm
Orange for Steve Grossman! Go Steve!
It was a surprise when the
By FirmamentHub
Tue, 09/02/2014 - 12:24pm
It was a surprise when the doors opened at Assembly this morning
It was a surprise for my conductor too
By bostonkid_316
Tue, 09/02/2014 - 3:14pm
The doors closed at Wellington and he said, "Next stop Sulli--excuse me, the next stop is Assembly." Has to be hard after repeating the same stops in the same order for years!
Now if they could run a bus to the station
By fenway
Tue, 09/02/2014 - 3:23pm
The T in their infinite stupidity have not adjusted the 92 and 90 buses to stop at the station even though they both stop at the K-Mart in Assembly Sq.
Getting the T to change a bus route is impossible. Take for example the 99 bus that terminates at a hospital that CLOSED 15 years ago. How hard could it be to extend the route to downtown Stoneham????
http://www.mbta.com/schedules_and_maps/bus/routes/...