Key MBTA Bus Routes

Matthew said:
Random note: the Nextbus prediction for the 57 has become wildly overoptimistic the last week or so. It always was predicting arrival a few minutes too early, but now it's like 5-10 minutes. Anyone else notice?
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Try boston bus map, its a google maps overlay that shows you the physical location of each bus, I like it much better than the countdown apps
 
Matthew said:
Random note: the Nextbus prediction for the 57 has become wildly overoptimistic the last week or so. It always was predicting arrival a few minutes too early, but now it's like 5-10 minutes. Anyone else notice?
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I noticed that on the Copley Sq bound No. 10 bus both yesterday and this morning.

I left the house at 8:46 this morning, when the bus was supposed to be three minutes away from the stop at Harrison and E Newton St (a two minute walk from home), this is what the Pocket MBTA App reported:

3 min at 8:46
1 min at 8:49
Now at 8:51
2 min at 8:51
1 min at 8:52
2 min at 8:52
1 min at 8:53
Now at 8:54
13 min at 8:55 (this was for the bus that was supposed to follow the one I was waiting for)
11 min at 8:56
1 min at 8:56
Now at 8:56-9:00
Arrived 9:00

I don't know what's going on with their real time data, but something is real screwy.
 
I watched the Nextbus map this morning and it claimed "3 and 5 minutes" for buses that were shown to be in Brighton Center. I can barely imagine a bus making it from Brighton Center to Allston in 3-5 minutes even with no traffic and no stops, much less normal conditions. Normally it takes me 4 minutes to walk to the bus stop, but I waited a little bit and then left, and still caught the lead bus.

I think they really did change something in their software last week.
 
Matthew said:
Random note: the Nextbus prediction for the 57 has become wildly overoptimistic the last week or so. It always was predicting arrival a few minutes too early, but now it's like 5-10 minutes. Anyone else notice?
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I take it almost every day and you can be damn sure I've noticed. And considering the ~15 minute headways, Nextbus being off by 7ish minutes means its almost pointless to check it any more.
 
I noticed two new benches by a 57 bus stop today. However neither the bus driver nor a dispatcher knew anything about upcoming improvements.

The dispatcher said that nobody tells them these sorts of things anyway. Sigh.
 
Used the 39 a good bit last weekend. Not one improvement visible.
 
I was in JP last weekend too and I noticed something funny: a "Bus Stop Moved" sign that looked ancient.
 
Matthew said:
I noticed two new benches by a 57 bus stop today. However neither the bus driver nor a dispatcher knew anything about upcoming improvements.

The dispatcher said that nobody tells them these sorts of things anyway. Sigh.
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They're not lying. That's pretty rutine and MBTA. Do you think they actually hold meetings about things? Nah. They post notices on little bulliten boards at the bus/train garages.
 
Oh, I believed him. It's really sad. I've been waiting for them to at least post warning notices about bus stop relocation.

Why are we Americans so fucking terrible at this stuff? We're so busy telling ourselves about how great we are that we forget to actually be competent.
 
Matthew said:
I noticed two new benches by a 57 bus stop today. However neither the bus driver nor a dispatcher knew anything about upcoming improvements.
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The bus stop in Oak Square got a bench this past weekend, AND a couple new saplings were planted. Huzzah!
 
The bus stop in Oak Square... meaning the temporary parking zone for the Dunkin Donuts?
 
New bench by Harvard and Brighton inbound -- blocking half the sidewalk of course. Sigh.

Also two in front of Cafenation in Brighton Center. That's a good spot. I was enjoying a coffee there and a woman rolled by in a wheelchair and asked about the benches. She seemed excited when I told her it was part of an improvement project.
 
Great to hear about the Cafenation benches; they'll be an instant success for sure. Gonna check them out tomorrow on the way to work!
 
Noticed "MBTA Worksite" signs at the stops on Huntington southbound corresponding with both the north and south ends of the Northeastern platform... I haven't read the plan for the 39, are they really keeping both stops? It seems like an obvious place for consolidation.
 
http://www.mbta.com/uploadedfiles/About_the_T/T_Projects/T_Projects_List/Website 6-21-13 Update.pdf

Construction is continuing on the MBTA Key Bus Routes Project, including MBTA ContractD30CN01 Bus
Route&Systemwide Improvements by McCourt Construction and MBTA ContractD01CN02
Enhancementsto Key Bus Routes 23 and 39 Project by LM Heavy Civil Construction. Routes 15, 22, 23,
28, 32, 39, 57, 66, 116/117 will continue to be under construction. Please note below the areas
impacted by scheduled work overthe nextthree weeks.
 Centre Street/Seaverns Ave (DBE work)
 Centre Street/St.John Street(DBE work)
 S.Huntington/Perkins Street(DBE work)
 Talbot/Dot Ave
 South St/Sedgewick Street(DBE work)
 Route #15 onDudley St andHancock St
 Route #32 onHyde Park Ave
 Route #66 including Tremont St,Huntington Ave,Harvard St, Brighton Ave, Cambridge St,North
Harvard St
 Route #57 includingGalen St, Tremont St, Washington St, Cambridge St, Brighton Ave, and
Commonwealth Ave
 Striping on Routes #22, 23, 28, 32, 39, 57, 66, 116/117
 Electrical work at Kenmore Station, ForestHills Station, Ruggles Station, Ashmont Station,
Wonderland Station, Wollaston Station, Alewife Station (DBE work)
 Bike Cage work at Alewife Station, Wollaston Station,Dudley Station (DBE work)
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Back of the Hill (rt 39 bus shares it with E Line) now has a box painted on the street that says "BUS" in it. How... useful? Alot of the improvements are simply putting trees by stops. I'm not sure any of this is helping, but okay. *shrugs*
 
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