How Do You Use Boston Public Transportation?
Driving in Boston is a gamble. Traffic jams, confusing road layout and construction combine to conspire against and bedevil motorists. What’s NOT a gamble is parking. You’ll almost always shell out a small fortune to park anywhere in the Hub. The solution – T time, of course; as in the MBTA (or Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority). For visitors the T, or Boston subway, goes to virtually all the popular tourist spots – Quincy Market/Faneuil Hall, Children’s Museum, the New England Aquarium, Museum of Fine Arts, Fenway Park, Museum of Science, as well as the airport. For Boston-bound workers, the T provides relief from rush hour traffic. It reaches into many nearby suburbs; including Arlington, Braintree, Brookline, Cambridge, Malden, Medford, Milton, Newton, Quincy, Revere and Somerville. Connecting buses will take you even further afield. The commuter rail (which costs extra) will get you to yet more outlying areas – points like Lowell, Salem, Fitchburg, Newburyport and even Pro
