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Ok, so I'm going to BU in the autumn to the school of social work, over on Bay Street in Boston. Now one would think that a school with billions of dollars flowing in would have a fucking garage remotely close to campus, but you'd be wrong. That'd be too easy. So there's nowhere for me to park near campus, well there is, but the lots are like 30/day and I can't even remotely afford that. So I figure, ok, everyone in Boston ejaculates about how awesome the T is, so I'll just mosey over to the website and find out which line comes nearest to B.U. Easy, right? Holy fucking murder-fuck....the MAP for the T shows the green line running by B.U. in the most circuitous fucking route possible short of actually getting there by way of fucking phoenix. Then there's this fucking thing. Seriously, that's a search on the T website that says that bay state road in BOSTON is right next to PROVIDENCE FUCKING RHODE ISLAND. THEN the fucking search for Boston University on the T's page either lends a page error OR a claim that the red-line comes near it, even though the map doesn't show it coming close. Good work guys. no wonder the fucking Ted Williams tunnel is spilling raw fucking sewage on motorists.
So I have NO fucking idea what lines run in a somewhat direct manner towards or near B.U. I swear not even people that LIVE in Boston have any fucking clue where B.U. is, or what lines come near it. I've gotten PM's from 5 different well-meaning people on ATOT each suggesting one of the 5 colored lines as the quickest way, and telling me the other 4 come no where near the school, or that it'd take them hours to get there, even though they're all assuming I'm at the same starting point.
Even people that GO to B.U. can't give me a straight answer, they all claim they ride it in every day, but ask them which line is best to take from the city I say I'd be starting from at the time and I get completely different answers, even though the city I use as a starting point is always the same.
Last week I figured I'd look in Newton, I asked what lines quickest to get to B.U. from Newton...one person said the green line in 20 minutes, another said the orange line. Others got a look on their face like I just asked them to lick shit off a statue of Hitler and exclaim 'NEWTON??? THAT'S AN HOUR AWAY NO MATTER WHAT LINE YOU'RE ON". Someone else had the balls to suggest I take the fucking 'commuter rail' in, which is apparently different from the 'elitist prick rail' that uses the color coded line system. Even though from what I can tell the commuter rail takes 8x as long to get where I'd want to go, at 3x the price.
ALL I WANT is a fucking apartment that is close to a T line that gets me near to 264 Bay State road, Federal Street for my internship, and the B.U. gym. Plus I need parking at the apartment since my internship requires travel via car to non T accessible locations. Which isn't a big deal since the only thing accessible via T is other goddamn T stations, and Boston, Rhode Island. Fuck.
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Ok, so I'm going to BU in the autumn to the school of social work, over on Bay Street in Boston. Now one would think that a school with billions of dollars flowing in would have a fucking garage remotely close to campus, but you'd be wrong. That'd be too easy. So there's nowhere for me to park near campus, well there is, but the lots are like 30/day and I can't even remotely afford that. So I figure, ok, everyone in Boston ejaculates about how awesome the T is, so I'll just mosey over to the website and find out which line comes nearest to B.U. Easy, right? Holy fucking murder-fuck....the MAP for the T shows the green line running by B.U. in the most circuitous fucking route possible short of actually getting there by way of fucking phoenix. Then there's this fucking thing. Seriously, that's a search on the T website that says that bay state road in BOSTON is right next to PROVIDENCE FUCKING RHODE ISLAND. THEN the fucking search for Boston University on the T's page either lends a page error OR a claim that the red-line comes near it, even though the map doesn't show it coming close. Good work guys. no wonder the fucking Ted Williams tunnel is spilling raw fucking sewage on motorists.
So I have NO fucking idea what lines run in a somewhat direct manner towards or near B.U. I swear not even people that LIVE in Boston have any fucking clue where B.U. is, or what lines come near it. I've gotten PM's from 5 different well-meaning people on ATOT each suggesting one of the 5 colored lines as the quickest way, and telling me the other 4 come no where near the school, or that it'd take them hours to get there, even though they're all assuming I'm at the same starting point.
Even people that GO to B.U. can't give me a straight answer, they all claim they ride it in every day, but ask them which line is best to take from the city I say I'd be starting from at the time and I get completely different answers, even though the city I use as a starting point is always the same.
Last week I figured I'd look in Newton, I asked what lines quickest to get to B.U. from Newton...one person said the green line in 20 minutes, another said the orange line. Others got a look on their face like I just asked them to lick shit off a statue of Hitler and exclaim 'NEWTON??? THAT'S AN HOUR AWAY NO MATTER WHAT LINE YOU'RE ON". Someone else had the balls to suggest I take the fucking 'commuter rail' in, which is apparently different from the 'elitist prick rail' that uses the color coded line system. Even though from what I can tell the commuter rail takes 8x as long to get where I'd want to go, at 3x the price.
ALL I WANT is a fucking apartment that is close to a T line that gets me near to 264 Bay State road, Federal Street for my internship, and the B.U. gym. Plus I need parking at the apartment since my internship requires travel via car to non T accessible locations. Which isn't a big deal since the only thing accessible via T is other goddamn T stations, and Boston, Rhode Island. Fuck.
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