You'll be flying into Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) with American. With United, it's San Francisco (SFO). With Delta, you'll have a choice between Atlanta (ATL), Detroit (DTW), Minneapolis-St Paul (MSP), or Seattle-Tacoma (SEA).

Make sure you budget enough time for the layover to clear customs, navigate the airport to your connecting flight to BOS, and to account for any unexpected delays. I'd recommend at minimum 2 hours for your layover, more if you choose to fly into one of the super massive airports at ATL or DFW.

Korean Air offers a direct flight from Seoul-Incheon (ICN) to BOS if you want to avoid a layover, although it'll likely be more expensive than the US-based airlines.

Some transit agencies use a 5 digit numbering scheme despite not having over 10000 buses. Under the most common 5 digit scheme, the first two digits represent the year the bus was purchased, the third digit represents the size of the bus (3 for 30-35ft, 4 for 40-45ft, 6 for 60ft), and the last two digits represent the fleet number within that series. For example, 20317 would correspond to the seventeeth 35ft bus purchased in 2020. In this picture, the bus is a 35 foot Gillig Low Floor bus. The numbering makes sense, but the MBTA has never owned a Gillig bus (their primary vendor is New Flyer) and has not had 35 foot buses since 2007. The MBTA also uses a 4 digit numbering scheme that does not incorporate purchase date or bus size.

The MBTA used to have a more extensive ferry system around Boston Harbor, but most of the routes were canceled due to high operating costs. All we're left with now is a dinky route to Charlestown, a seasonal route to Eastie, and two routes to Hingham and Hull.

https://web.archive.org/web/20030611073010/http://www.mbta.com/traveling_t/pdf/boats/ferryih.pdf

https://web.archive.org/web/20030403071512/http://www.mbta.com/traveling_t/pdf/boats/ferryoh.pdf

We're hogging all the snow here in Waltham

The PVTA has a bus that goes from the Worcester train station to UMass Amherst on Mondays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays.

https://www.pvta.com/schedules/B79.pdf

Ok sure

Fuck off

I've lived in and around Boston for 30 years, and I've never heard anyone other than tourists and visitors call it Beantown.

Gary

All trains already have the ability to tow and push other trains. That's what the couplers on the front and rear are for. The train behind the disabled train simply connects to it and pushes it to the yard.

Buses don't have that ability. When a Silver Line bus breaks down in the Waterfront tunnel, the buses in front of it have to clear the tunnel, and a mini tow truck has to back into the tunnel. It takes way longer to remove a disabled bus from the tunnel than a train.

The problem isn't the technology. Trains are already proven to be more efficient than buses in other first world countries. It's that the MBTA's operations are shit and they manage to make both trains and buses wildly inefficient.

Either they don't understand how the pricing structure works and they're going to rack up tons of fees, or they stole it and someone else is on the hook for $1,200.

Gobble gobble, motherfuckers!

Any reason why you can't take the subway or commuter rail? Public transit here is way more reliable, comprehensive, and safer than in LA. Driving in Boston is way more stressful, and in my opinion, not worth it.

Just watch out for the cocaine turkeys and you'll be fine.

Bring back Pony!

No, we need to make them even wordier and even more annoying.

Yup. They don't just have spare drivers lounging around the breakroom waiting for shit to happen. They have to pull drivers from their normal routes to run the shuttle, but they can't just kick passengers out midway through the trip on routes like the 1, 28, or 39. The shuttle drivers have to finish their current trips first before diverting to the shuttle. It takes time to get the bus shuttles up and running.