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Old 03-31-2018, 08:36 AM
 
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Here i am circling but not driving. around the Boston Garden area looking to park for a Boston Bruins game today. $48 seems to be the price. Checked the old parking spaces on Commercial Street. All gone. No more. Checked the Stop and Shop in Government Center--Buy groceries, park for free. Nope. Gone.

Looks like $48 for a couple hours it will be. In addiction to ticket prices.
In addition to the traffic jam to go into Boston---That's still FREE, getting into Boston. And getting more FREE.

The mere fact i called it the Boston Garden should give a good hint of the last time i drove to Boston to spend money---and vowed never to go back. After today, never again! Well, maybe in 2040. Naaaw, By then Boston will be a real stinky city. And it will not be molasses odor.

And what is the name of the joint, Fleet? TDBank? Real classy names.

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Old 03-31-2018, 08:40 AM
 
Location: (six-cent-dix-sept)
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next time take the t.

last i went to a concert at blue hill pavillion, i used parkwhiz.com. i paid like $6 a few blocks away. my cousins paid $25 for the lot across the street.
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Old 03-31-2018, 09:04 AM
 
Location: New England
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At $48 dollars you got swindled.

Personally coming from the north I always park along the orange line for 5 or 6 bucks and take the T in, makes it easy.
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Old 03-31-2018, 09:44 AM
 
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Unfortunately, and ironically to what i was posting/whining about, the $48 to park looks like a bargain to taking the T.
What is it, getting close to $20 round trip for 2 people to travel the T into Boston. Then the $fee to park at the T station. Then; the aggregation, getting packed in like sardines on the T,the petty criminals. Then the increasingly new odor on the T with the urine odors.

parkwhiz.com. Was good advice from stanley-88888888
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Old 03-31-2018, 10:03 AM
 
Location: New England
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Petty crime really isn't much of the problem on the MBTA considering the fact that there are cameras and other people. Plus it isn't packed like sardines on the weekend.
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Old 03-31-2018, 10:17 AM
 
Location: Woburn, MA / W. Hartford, CT
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Unfortunately, and ironically to what i was posting/whining about, the $48 to park looks like a bargain to taking the T.
What is it, getting close to $20 round trip for 2 people to travel the T into Boston. Then the $fee to park at the T station. Then; the aggregation, getting packed in like sardines on the T,the petty criminals. Then the increasingly new odor on the T with the urine odors.

parkwhiz.com. Was good advice from stanley-88888888
I went to TD Garden for last weekend's March Madness games. Parked at Anderson-Woburn for $4 (ample space), bought a commuter rail ticket via smartphone for $6.25, and it brought me within 20 min to the basement of TD Garden.
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Old 03-31-2018, 10:18 AM
 
Location: New England
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I went to TD Garden for last weekend's March Madness games. Parked at Anderson-Woburn for $4 (ample space), bought a commuter rail ticket via smartphone for $6.25, and it brought me within 20 min to the basement of TD Garden.
Well to be fair that's both ways. So $12.50 per person.
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Old 03-31-2018, 10:46 AM
 
Location: Woburn, MA / W. Hartford, CT
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Well to be fair that's both ways. So $12.50 per person.
Agree. Going back was actually worse because the commuter rail doesn't run as late as the T (last train left at 12:15am). So I had to partially Uber back to Anderson. Was speaking more about the convenience of the commuter rail, if the timings work out.
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Old 03-31-2018, 02:53 PM
 
Location: RI, MA, VT, WI, IL, CA, IN (that one sucked), KY
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Take the T. Cheap and easy.
Don't notice odors other than general city stuff. I saw a crime once on the T (guy took a phone and bolted). Once, in riding it 25+ years?
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Old 03-31-2018, 03:19 PM
 
Location: New England
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To put it into perspective, there are roughly 475 (2016 numbers) larceny's a year on the MBTA system. The T averages 1.27 Million trips a day.

So for every trip on the MBTA you have roughly 1 and a million chance of getting robbed.
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