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The first to assemble

By adamg on Tue, 09/02/2014 - 9:15am
First paying customer at the Assembly stop on the Orange Line in Somerville

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.

Neighborhoods: 
Somerville
Topics: 
The T
Free tagging: 
Orange Line
Assembly Row


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Comments

By John-W on Tue, 09/02/2014 - 9:29am.

Who gets the bragging rights to spilling the first [fill in the bodily fluids] in the station??

By Michael on Tue, 09/02/2014 - 9:30am.

That ship has probably already sailed, so to speak

By John-W on Tue, 09/02/2014 - 9:38am.

...that there's a joke here about seamen....but I'm not so crass as to go there....

By gotdatwmd on Tue, 09/02/2014 - 11:27am.

There's stripes on the fare gates. That's new!

By anon on Tue, 09/02/2014 - 12:10pm.

They look as if they are orange stripes! Crazy. Welcome to the 21st century, T.

By David on 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.

By Sarahwenig on Wed, 09/03/2014 - 3:34pm.

Orange for Steve Grossman! Go Steve!

By FirmamentHub on Tue, 09/02/2014 - 12:24pm.

It was a surprise when the doors opened at Assembly this morning

By bostonkid_316 on 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!

By fenway on 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/?route=99