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Article #1327Re: Drinking and the MBTA was Re: Sunday Liquor Sales
From: Helen Trillian Rose
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 03:36
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 03:36
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CKD> == Christopher Davis <ckd@eff.org>
DB> == Dave Borden <borden@head-cfa.harvard.edu>
DB> What this city should do is allow private bus lines to run at night,
DB> and in my opinion, in the daytime as well. Why should the MBTA have a
DB> monopoly on mass transit?
CKD> Do they? I seem to remember a Harvard-Longwood bus going up and
CKD> down Mass Ave a few times ("MetroBus"?) Does that still run? Who
CKD> runs it? It wasn't a T bus, that's for sure.
From the latest (Orange) "Car Free in Boston" (I can't recommend this
book enough):
Chapter 19 "Other Trains, Ferries, Buses"
MetroBus
Cambridge-Longwood Medical Area
Cambridge: Harvard Sq, Mass Ave. Central Sq, MIT; to Fenway: Ave. Louis
Pasteur, Longwood Ave.; some night trips via Brookline: Coolidge Corner.
Tickets must be purchased in advance at Harvard, MIT, or Longwood
Galleria. Limited to students, faculty, and staff of Harvard, MIT, and
other Medical Area institutions.
M-F rush hours: every 10 minutes
Midday: every 30 minutes
Nights and Saturdays: every hour
Trip Time: 25 min
And in the Index:
MetroBus: 732-2384
(as for who it's owned by, don't ask me!)
--Helen
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