Airport (MBTA) (Boston, Massachusetts)

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  American1Heavy (guest)

  Logan Airport is the closest airport to a city's business district of any airport in the world (1.5 miles). Beginning in 1994, Massport spent hundreds of millions (reportedly a good chunk of $4.4 billion) on a new roadway and parking garage, but left the MBTA station far away from the terminals, accessible only via a crap, overcrowded shuttle bus that comes once every half-hour if you're lucky. Then, they designed the sidewalk in front of the station so that there's not even enough room to wheel your suitcase past a set of huge poles designed to hold up a roof that leaks most of the time. Alternatively, if the hassle of taking the Blue Line turns you off, you could take the "rapid-transit" Silver Line, which is limited to 5 mph along a good part of its route. Only in Boston! And of course the route from the airport to South Station, which should be an express shot, is strewn with a bunch of useless stops where nobody ever gets on or off, resulting in a total travel time of about 20 minutes (for a distance of about 2.5 miles). The end result is that the only logical way to get to Logan Airport is by automobile. In which case, Massport will pamper you with the option of premium parking locations to make your carbon emissions that much more painless! The mismanagement of Logan Airport and its associated transit infrastructure is one of the reasons why Boston remains such a stagnant backwater.

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  guest (guest)

  ya hit the nail on the head there...

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  old cat (guest)

  Old T stop was just southeast of this location. It was old and decrepit but the entrance to the station was above the level of the trains, so you only had to enter and descend to the appropriate platform. The new station is clean and nice but on ground level so you have to ride, with your luggage, up and over the tracks then back down to the platform level to get your train inbound towards downtown. Maybe there is a good reason for this but, I do agree with the first comment, you have to wonder who approves some of this stuff.

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