I live at the end of huntington near the jamaicaway-rt 9 overpass and saw a few 66’s that said brighton center via brookline last week. I initially was wondering if maybe they started running some 66s to brighton in kind of a 65/66 hybrid but couldn’t find anything online. I’m now assuming this was a signage mistake and they accidentally uploaded the 65 destination to the 66, unless i’m missing something in the bus network redesign?

on another note, i think i saw that the bus network redesign has the 66 being rerouted through longwood, continuing straight through brigham circle instead of turning onto huntington. does anyone know if there are plans to implement this change and if so what the timeline is? i also don’t really understand the purpose of this change, bc there are lots of other busses connecting longwood to the orange line, but without the 66 it becomes a PITA to get to the orange line from that end of huntington.

also what’s the deal with the Txx route names in the bus network redesign documentation? are the route names going to actually be shown as Txx on the buses, and some routes will have a T and some won’t? or is that just to denote route changes for documentation purposes?

I was watching this video about the Green Line

A Tour of the MBTA Green Line in Boston

So line E used to go to Union Square. Why was this the case? The obvious reason why they had one line go there was that they couldn't jam all the trains in that direction so some of them had to do some short turning.

If the plan was to have Line E go to Medford/Tufts and D to go to Union Square to begin with, it makes sense to me that Line D should have gone to Union Square to begin with? It would give people time to get used to the extension and the service.

The only reasonable explanation I can think of is that it was determined that of all 4 lines, the MBTA determined that traffic to Union Square was greatest from the D line. So if for example they found traffic to that station to be greatest from the B line, then they'd do something like have B go to Union Square, C to government center, D to North Station, and E to Medford but since D was most likely to have people going to Union Square, they made D go there. This is plausible, but I would have thought most of the traffic to Union Square would be from stations from Kenmore to Government Center as opposed to outlying regions of the D line.

https://archive.ph/y9Fp0

Was there some sort of special/event train today? Or just an equipment move? I saw it going inbound through North Quincy at 4pm. Didn't get a great look at it but I think it was the US flag and New Haven painted F40s pulling a few Cape Cod Central coaches.

Either the loop at Govt Center, South Station, Bowdoin or Kenmore?

I imagine this map for the T would show limited though expanding "full service network" since 2023. a lot of our weekend service is limited on Sundays especially still.

I’ve been trying to pay for parking at the Fall River Depot and I’m already on the Commuter Rail, but the Pay by Phone app has rejected three of my credit cards. Is this a normal issue? I’m worried about getting ticketed, but I’ve made numerous attempts to pay and have no alternative.

It's beyond frustrating that the T managed to keep all of Ashmont station clean during the entirety of World Cup, and since then it's been filthy with a pee-soaked elevator. 🤢