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SL2 bus at South Station. The Silver Line is a six-route bus rapid transit system marketed as rapid transit.It is divided into two branches: Waterfront service (SL1, SL2, SL3, and the rush-hour SLW shuttle) that runs through the South Boston Transitway tunnel, and Washington Street service (SL4 and SL5) that runs on the surface via Washington Street.
The Lowell Regional Transit Authority (LRTA) is a public, non-profit organization in Massachusetts, charged with providing public transportation to the Greater Lowell area. This primarily includes the city of Lowell and the towns of Andover , Billerica , Burlington , Dracut , Chelmsford , Littleton , Tewksbury , Tyngsborough , Westford and ...
Denotes any links to MBTA subway and MBTA bus routes, to other bus systems, to Amtrak trains, or to the CapeFLYER at the station. City/neighborhood: Identifies the municipality (and for Boston, the neighborhood) in which the station is located. Fare zone: Identifies which of the eleven fare zones the station is in.
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) operates 152 bus routes in the Greater Boston area. The MBTA has a policy objective to provide transit service within walking distance (defined as 0.25 miles (0.40 km)) for all residents living in areas with population densities greater than 5,000 inhabitants per square mile (1,900/km 2) within the MBTA's service district.
Lowell station, officially the Charles A. Gallagher Transit Terminal, is an intermodal transit station in Lowell, Massachusetts. It is located off Thorndike Street ( Route 3A ) near the end of the Lowell Connector south of downtown Lowell.
Shortly after the steam locomotive became practical for mass transportation, [6] the private Boston and Lowell Railroad was chartered in 1830. [7] The rail, which opened in 1835, [6] connected Boston to Lowell, [8] a major northerly mill town in northeast Massachusetts' Merrimack Valley, [9] via one of the oldest railroads in North America.
The MBTA began adding the key bus routes to its rapid transit map in 2009. [5] [6] This is a 2013 draft by Michael Kvrivishvili, modified into the official map in 2014, that shows the key routes as thinner lines on the rapid transit map.
1974 map showing a unified commuter rail system with new purple coloring. Rapid transit extension was slower than expected; by 1971, the only extension in service was the first portion of the Red Line Braintree Branch on the Old Colony mainline. [30]