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Why People Don’t Use Mass Transit

MBTA Routing

I had to go into Boston today from Wellesley.  I had to be at 1 Kneeland Street at 3:30 pm.  I used the MBTA site to plan the trip and was given two options, one involving a transfer, the other not.

To avoid a transfer, I had to leave at Wellesley Square 12:33, take the Framingham/Worcester Line to South Station, and walk for what the MBTA estimates would have been 15 minutes to my appointment. If that’s correct, the train would get it at 1:15 pm, with a 15 minute walk, that’s 1:30.  Then I suppose I could have lunch or something to kill the 2 hours before my appointment.  The cost of this option, $5.25 and time in transit, 66 minutes.

The faster route, but 6 minutes, involved less walking and allowed me to leave later, but cost more.  I would have once again taken the Framingham/Worcester line, but this time to Back Bay, were I would have transfered to the Orange Line, getting to my stop at 3:10 for the brief walk.  This route cost $7.25.
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My Ride Tonight

My bike ride from today is on the map below. It was longer than I planned because I took a wrong turn, maybe two, and went a route I hadn’t intended to go. It was alright, though. It took me on a road that runs through the Broadmoor Audubon Reservation, which is bigger than I ever realized. I’ve walked the trails back there, but the trails don’t go all the way through.

I went out too late, so I barely got back before dark. I just haven’t been able to accept the shortening days yet. So I wento out at 5 thinking I still had a few hours of sun left. I didn’t. I was also late getting out because I am constantly saying to myself that I need to finish this, that and the other thing before I go out. I put off my bike rides in the same way I put off the gym, and yet they are so different.

I always really enjoy my rides. They are explorations. I never really have a plan, I just go. And I’ve gotten even more adventurous, now that I have an iPhone with GPS, because I know I can always get back. It is a sad state of affairs when procrastinate so much on something I like to do because I have work to do. That, my friends, make me a workaholic.

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Anyway, here’s the map of my route. It’s not a bad ride. I took it at a really leisurely pace. I wouldn’t do at around dusk. I charted it using iMapMyRide. I like that service, though I am still using the free version and that ads are bothering me. But is it worth the price of an upgrade just to get rid of the ads? Other features don’t seem all that useful.

The Global and the Local: Climate Control and Boston’s T

Watching the news this morning and reading my local paper, two items were juxtaposed in stark contrast.  On TV5 Monde I heard coverage of the summit in Aquila, Italy on climate change and the imperative to keep any increase in global CO2 emissions below 2%.  (Click here for an English report on the summit).  In the Boston Globe I read about a proposed 20% fare hike for riders of the T, Boston’s Mass transit system.  The T is massively in debt and it has alread received a massive bailout.  But it is still in the red and this plan is intended to help.

The proposal includes a broad array of increases that would bring in an estimated $69 million a year and affect everyone who uses public transportation, from the suburban resident who takes commuter rail once a month to the city resident who depends on a monthly bus or subway pass for all local travel.

Advocates have warned that higher prices will drive people away from public transit when the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority is struggling to retain riders who turned to the T when gas prices spiked last summer.

This is very true.  According to the rate chart published in the Globe, within the city discounted Charlie Card fares for bus and subway riders will still not be too bad, as long as you don’t want to get there fast on an express bus.  But the commuter rail price, already expensive, becomes nearly absurd.

Consider a very specific situation, mine.  To take the train from Wellesley into Boston’s Back Bay takes about 20 minutes and is less than 15 miles.  It takes about the same amount to time to drive if there is no traffic, 45 when there is.  I drive a Toyota Yaris, a remarkably feul efficient vehicle, exceeded only by the hybrids.  A tank of gas will last me two weeks or more.
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Because I don’t work in Boston, when I drive in it is in off hours and it is seldom a problem to find parking at a free space of meter where I will have to pay at most a couple of dollars.

A one way commuter rail ticket into Boston is already $5.25 and under the proposed plan it will be 6.00, ONE WAY!  It is much more economical for me to drive.  Add to that the fact that the commuter trains are infrequent and you begin to see that perhaps the T needs a different business plan.  Perhaps it doesn’t need to boost fares.  Perhaps it needs to boost ridership.  So perhaps it needs more frequent, less expensive trains.

How does this relate to the summit in Italy?  I am sure you have figured it out.  Reducing emissions means getting cars off the road and getting cars off the road requires reliable transit options.  Boston’s options need work.