Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Getting around getting more confusing

I just received, courtesy of Joe Mason, an announcement from the MBTA:

Effective the weekend of October 20-22, all MBTA bus service at Maverick Station will relocate across Sumner Street. Bus schedules will remain the same only the location for customer drop-off and pick-up will change.

On Monday, Oct. 22 customers will be directed to a new Maverick Station entrance on Lewis Mall located directly across Sumner Street from the existing station. MBTA staff will be available to assist customers during the transition.

Also, there is a flashing sign on the way to the Chelsea Street Bridge that indicates that the bridge will be closed beginning Sunday, Oct. 21. Does anyone know when it will re-open?

This just in: Bremen Street from Day Square to Porter Street will be closed Saturday for paving.

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11 comments:

Anonymous said...

As usual, East Bostonians get whatever other people want to do in East Boston. We need real leaders in the political arena...

October 17, 2007 at 7:23 PM
Anonymous said...

For the life of me, I can't think of where the Chelsea Street bridge is. Obviously not on Meridian Street, right?

October 18, 2007 at 12:17 PM
N.starluna said...

Hopefully get a safer bridge and a better T station at the end of all of this craziness.

October 18, 2007 at 8:07 PM
Anonymous said...

Its begun;
Just came through Maverick. NO more parking on the square,signs are up,and so are the huge painted markings.
Eastimated timee 12 months,reality prob 18 months.

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B.K.Update:
Vote postponed for apx. two weeks.
Maybe the check hasn't cleared????

October 19, 2007 at 3:38 PM
deswotans said...

More wish list type items for Maverick... Is there any talk of ferry service to downtown or water taxis? It would be great to have some alternatives. Agreed there are the concerns that come with increased traffic however, getting the additional customers to the square will help attract and keep the businesses we would all like to frequent.

October 20, 2007 at 8:07 AM
Anonymous said...

GREAT IDEA!!
Implementation???
I used the ferry/water taxy many years ago, it was great going from Maverick to Aquarium in boat, and it was NOT at all expensive... but, there were not publicity and/or outreach, so not too many people new about it.

October 20, 2007 at 9:02 AM
deswotans said...

Many of the BRA maps do already show a potential water trasnit site at "East Boston Piers." This potential location is directly ahead when looking from the Maverick T-Station to the water. Getting this moved up on the agenda and reviving the discussion is likely a matter of contacting our City Council and others. Hopefully this is not directly tied to any of the waterfront development projects that have recently stalled. Do we have a neigborhood association specifically for Maverick? Or, would we want to bring this to a Jeffries Point meeting?

October 20, 2007 at 10:18 AM
Anonymous said...

There was a Ferry service behind Lewis Mall where you are talking about.

However POOR ridership made it vanish. No matter what type of promotion they used,including using the old T pass ,could not get people hooked.

As the saying goes no cash flow no stay open.

October 20, 2007 at 7:53 PM
deswotans said...

I do hope that we, the BRA, et al., have a broad neighborhood plan that includes the Maverick renovations, the waterfront projects and how we can use the remaining available space to continue improvements. With additional housing, retail, park and office space I should hope that water transport would have more users.

If the area arround the landing is attractive and, we have the shops, restaurants and open spaces to attract visitors, it should be much easier to promote ridership.

October 21, 2007 at 8:31 AM
Anonymous said...

How is it that we never get supplied information! They just get to randomly put up a sign that says the Chelsea St. Bridge is closed....no reason why, no time estimate. This will cause tremendous traffic throughout the neighborhood (Meredian, Border, Falcon, etc.) Why aren't we entitled to a reason?

October 22, 2007 at 9:04 AM
Anonymous said...

Well, a lot depends on OUR political leaders... and it is true, East Boston never gets informed about things in our neigborhood...you can still park at Maverick, but there are less parking spaces. It is crazy driving around East Boston... The Ferry was good, I used some times years ago, weekends and weekdays, and, I think that the problem was and still that the people in charge, do not understand that we need a friendly service, the poor ridership in that time, was because people did not trust the service and were not sure if the service was true... they were suposed to try during summer time, but nothing happened. At some point, they were serving only from the airport to charlestown and/or aquarium, and one time, the people in charge asked how many were going to East Boston, we were 4, and they said that they were only to stop at the airport...

October 22, 2007 at 7:29 PM

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