The 350 was originally a semi-express bus that ran to Haymarket. It had a small number of stops up to Arlington Center and was a local after that. You paid a zoned express bus fare to ride it; how much you paid depended on how far out of the city you were going. When Alewife Station opened the 350 route changed to its current configuration of ending at Alewife, and it became a normal fare route.
There are many other high numbered bus routes that are not express buses. The numbers signify the area they serve. Routes under 100 are in Boston, Cambridge, and other nearby places. The 100s serve northern suburbs: Malden, Melrose, Winchester, Reading. 200s go to southern and southeastern towns: Quincy, Braintree, Hingham. 300s go to northwest suburbs: Bedford, Burlington, Woburn. 400s go northeast: Lynn, Salem, Peabody. 500s go west: Waltham and Newton. The former MBTA route to Wellesley is now privately run. Many but not all of the 300, 400, and 500 series are express lines. The 424 and 426 are unusual: the weekday versions are express buses that run to Haymarket, but the weekend versions are normal fare buses that end at Wonderland, where you can get on the Blue Line to go the rest of the way into the city. There are some privately run but MBTA-subsidized routes with numbers in the 700s. They have the quirk that they accept passes but only if they are printed on Charlie Tickets rather than encoded on Charlie Cards, and do not accept stored value Charlie Tickets or Cards. What happened to the southwest (Dedham, etc.)? The few that exist are in the under-100 group. There are also MBTA commuter rail trains. Privately run buses, notably the BAT (Brockton Area Transit), serve that area as well. Shirley, transit geek On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Mike Small <[email protected]> wrote: > > The 350 bus seems to go up that way too, following Cambridge Street from > Arlington. You catch it upstairs at Alewife, at the end closest to the > bike path where the bus to NYC used to leave from. Despite the high > number, it's a normal fare bus (probably since there's nothing "express" > about it). > > Bill Ricker <[email protected]> writes: > >> Next meeting >> December 9TOPIC: "*Stirring the Hive with a Perl Stick*" >> SPEAKER: *Charles Hardin* >> DATE: December 9, 2014 >> LOCATION: EIG Offices, Burlington. >> Address - To be verified - 10 Corporate Dr #300, Burlington, MA 01803 >> TIME: Usual 7-9:30 (unless corrected) >> >> ABSTRACT >> Hive provides a SQL-like interface to Hadoop. Perl can interoperate with >> Hive in a variety of ways, including Hive queries through a Thrift API and >> the direct incorporation of Perl into map-reduce jobs. The author has taken >> a few baby steps on this journey and chooses to share the results with his >> peers. >> >> KEYWORDS: Perl, Hadoop, Hive, Big Data, Thrift, Map-Reduce. >> >> This meeting is being hosted by EIG, Sean and Charles's employer, in both >> senses of 'hosted'. This is a one-off experiment - i feel strongly about >> having a balance of public transport access and easy parking; E51 is good >> on both. So a carpool from MIT and/or Red Line will be available for >> Car-Free commuters, talk to Bill [email protected] off-list. >> >> (ROOM E51-37*6* wll be cancelled for this month, see above. If I'm really >> really nice i'll leave a sign there ...) >> >> >> http://boston-pm.wikispaces.com/Calendar >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Boston-pm mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm > > _______________________________________________ > Boston-pm mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
