A question about getting around in Boston...

[Vektor]

If one takes the MBTA Commuter Rail into town, which line/stop is the one we need for Harvard Square? If we drive into the city, is there a public lot or paid parking structure nearby that we ought to park in that you can suggest? We're coming from Southeastern MA.

Thanks everyone! :-)

[Kathy in Cambridge]

1. The Red Line, which you can catch at South Station

where the commuter rail ends. :hi:

[Vektor]

3. Hi Kathy!

Thanks - and yes, I'm COMING HOME TO MA for ten days! Wheeeee....

(Trouble is, I lived in Westport my whole life, and don't remember a whole lot about commuting into Boston.)

I'm meeting some other DUers in Harvard Square for lunch on the 27th. If you are interested, you can certainly come too. I remember you talking me through a bout of homesickness last winter in this very forum! :-)

[Kathy in Cambridge]

8. Hey-I'd love to meet you. PM me the details.

It's going to be hot as hell this week-humidity and everything!

[SoDesuKa]

2. Link to the T

I know you take the Red Line to Harvard Square because it's named after Harvard's crimson color. Here's the web site for further information:

http://www.mbta.com/traveling_t/schedules_subway_redline.asp

[Vektor]

4. Thanks!

I appreciate the information. :hi:

[skids]

5. The trick to getting around in Boston...

...is never ask any natives for directions :-)

[Vektor]

6. Hahaha so I hear.

I'm actually a Westport native, but not real well versed in getting around Boston, but for one or two neighborhoods I used to haunt. I am "wicked" excited about coming home.

[jurassicpork]

7. Vektor

I may take you up on your offer. I live about thirty-five or forty minutes west of the Riverside station near Newton-Wellesley Hospital. KathyinCambridge, could you tell me how to get to Harvard Sq. if I take the trolley in from Riverside? I'd love to meet some of you guys and discuss politics with people who are at least sane or not in a political coma.

JP
http://jurassicpork.blogspot.com

[Kathy in Cambridge]

9. You want to take the Green Line to Park Street and change to the Red Line

going toward Alewife. Once you change at Park Street, Harvard Sq is 4 stops (Charles-Kendall-Central-Harvard). I asked Vektor to PM me the details. Hope to see you there!

[jurassicpork]

10. Thx, Kathy

Are you going to be there, too? Where will we eat? I'm starved!

Go Sox!!

JP
http://jurassicpork.blogspot.com

[Kathy in Cambridge]

11. Ask Vektor. I just found out about it myself.

:hi:

[jurassicpork]

12. Another question:

How are we gonna recognize eachother?

I'll make it easy for you guys:

I'll be the long-haired guy with glasses wearing a green Red Sox cap, a Nomar jersey and, if the Sox are still winning by the 27th, I'll likely have a Red Sox flag sticking out of my ass.

JP
http://jurassicpork.blogspot.com

[jurassicpork]

13. Any word

..on what Vektor's doing about wednesday?

JP
http://jurassicpork.blogspot.com

[Vektor]

14. Still arranging it with the locals.

I am sort of at their whim, since I am the visitor, and don't know where anything is. :shrug: