The T Might Start Running Until 2 am On Weekends…Who Cares, Lets Get The Bars Open Later Already
Bostinno – If lawmakers take the bait and decide to implement Governor Deval Patrick’s proposed transportation plan, pumping $1 billion into the state annually through higher taxes and fare hikes, bar crawlers could find themselves skipping the cab rides home, and using the MBTA until 2 a.m. on weekends. “The MBTA is investigating providing service beyond our current 1 a.m. schedule on a pilot basis where there is ridership demand,” according to a statement from MassDOT officials. “If additional operating funds are identified, major bus routes and the most heavily traveled portions of the subway and light rail systems will be considered for extra service.” The pilot program would be in response to the state-wide “Your Vision, Our Future” public meetings with riders, calling for extended hours, and could happen only with adequate funding through Patrick and MassDOT’s recent transportation reform proposal. Officials said on Tuesday that the cost of service will be determined once operating schedules and frequencies are identified.
Typical Beacon Hill talk right here. “The MBTA is investigating providing service beyond our current 1 a.m. schedule on a pilot basis where there is ridership demand.” Hey bro you ever tried getting a cab at 2 am in Faneuil Hall? Yeah, there’s fucking demand for public transportation on Friday and Saturday nights. Don’t need to investigate it. Just look out your window one night. Pretty obvious we need a few more rides home. Either keep the T running or let a couple hundred more cab permits go so I don’t have to almost get in a fight on Union St every weekend.
But transportation is secondary to the real concern. Can we get the bars open later already? Can I drink until 4 am like god intended? Pump some more money into the local establishments, get our bartenders pockets fatter, really bulk up Boston’s nightlife? Maybe get a few more restaurants besides South Street Diner open late so I don’t have to meet every other hungry person in Boston at the same place? Honestly what do we have to do? Start a petition or something? Go to these Your Vision, Our Future meetings? I’ll do it. My vision for the future is to get shellacked at the bars until the wee hours of the morning and hurriedly shuffle a girl home before the sun comes up. That’s how it’s supposed to be.
Seriously this is Barstool. Most popular website in the city. We’re the coveted 18-35 demographic. We run shit. How do we get the bars open later? What are the steps? They can’t ignore all of us. If we want to drop our rent money at the bars all night then god dammit that’s exactly what we’ll do. Help me out political science majors. Stoolies unite!
A) This is not captain planet B) Even in upstate NY i can drink till 4. Good work Boston
I have a dream…that I’ll be able to enjoy watered down booze into the depths of night and stagger outside, bleary eyed and belligerent, to welcome the dawning of a new day.
fucking mbta… 2:30am makes more sense if bars close at 2.
nothing’s worse than UMass..Last call at 12:50..embarassing
simply use pingup to get a cab. boom problem solved. that said, it’s absurd that bars close at 2 and the T stops at 1.
Step #1 – move to a real city.
it’s not gonna happen this subject comes up every few years. just make sure you save enough white to make it a fun walk from the bell in hand to brighton.
this is awesome
the coveted 18-35… is that why pres keeps saying he’s only 35
Someone asked Menino about this and he replied “Flabba-blab buddle, haaap, leebow Bahston baahs, flubbidee doo da Gonk and Wilcock.”
0 Percent chance the t runs longer, and 0 percent chance the bars stay open later. NEVER GONNA HAPPEN
Springfield’s retarded mayor Sarno is making bars close at 1 (with a few exceptions) because he thinks it’ll lower crime. BAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Here’s a thought, though, maybe Deval could let locals use his taxpayer-funded Cadillac.
This will never happen. Knowing first hand, the only reason it hasn’t been extended yet is because the MBTA needs all the time it can get to do any repairs and maintenance over the 4 hours it’s not running. Every year theres a great new plan of how that’s going to change but it never does. Until these shitbags realize that theres needs to be some serious money spent on upgrading these trains then 1 AM end time won’t change.
Why do you want to stop drinking at 4 a.m.?
Chau Chow City > South Street Diner
I have been to South Street Diner dozens of times and still have no idea where it is or how to get there sober.
First of all, you have to BE at the T-station around 12:45a to get that last train. Secondly, a 3am end time for the T makes more sense because it would generate revenue for the T, create jobs, and maximize profits for local late night business. I would be willing to pay $5.00 for a single charlie ticket if that’s the case. Also, no happy hour is faggotry.
It’s Boston. No matter how hard they try to be a “world class city”, it will always be a provincial city that people from Oklahoma and Chicago flock to to be worshiped and elected to public office.
Not happening while tommy is in office. Besides what will we do without the 2am influx of dudes in fanuiel hall who are pissed off that the girl they stared from the corner of bell in hand didn’t go home with them.
who the fuck goes to Fanuiel Hall bars anymore? Amateur hour central.
Shit like this won’t happen till Menino fucking bites it.
Our subway never shuts down and our bars barely close.
You think Boston is bad – try Providence. Now that that “massage parlors” are gone, its bad, real bad.
The solution to the getting a cab at 2 am problem is leaving the bars open until 4. I lived in NYC for two years and literally never had trouble getting a cab at 4 am or any time before that.
I suppose that leaving the T open until 2 am would help some but only poor people in NY take public transportation home from the bar. I never did there and never would here unless it was the only option.
I’m a native masshole who now lives in NYC. Let me say this: I can’t take Boston seriously as a social town until it extends the hours of its bars. Compete fucking joke. No one even goes out in NYC until 11:30. When I’m in Boston, people are rushing me out of the prega,e at fucking 9. Wack.
The bars close? That’s gay
M.I.T. and the rest of the Mass universities are so over-rated. How is it that despite possessing these prestigious higher learning centers an entire population of a city cannot figure out that the solution to ALL of the problems in Boston is to just GTFO. I mean, the best school in Detroit has books that still show half the world as U.S.S.R. and they are almost all gone..
Additional bonus: No more Tom Brady news 24/7, unless you have a T.V., or internet.
The T should run longer. It gives more people the opportunity to get stuck in a “standing by for a schedule adjustment” delay. Night of drinking, stuck on a train, have to piss your brains out. Sounds like a fucking blast. Sign me up