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Can the 39 bus be made even awesomer?

Wicked Local Brookline posts a copy of a T note about a meeting of an MBTA citizen advisory group meeting on ways to improve 39 service on March 2, starting at 6:30 p.m. at the Connolly Library, 433 Centre St. in Jamaica Plain.

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And you'll make the route 10x better.

Especially in the pockets of ridiculousness around the VA Hospital, Brigham Circle and Northeastern's athletic center.

I'm afraid we're only going to see a modest reduction in stops at best.

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I'm wondering if it would make sense to run some of the buses through Hyde Square to Jackson Square, instead of up South Huntington and Huntington to Copley. It might also make sense to end at Copley instead of continuing to Back Bay station.

Right now there's not much bus service between the commercial core of JP and Jackson Square, even though the corridor between Hyde and Jackson is quite densely populated and full of little shops and restaurants.

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The #48's route is kind of lame to the point where only a tiny handful of a handful of people ever use it and the MBTA wants to eliminate it. I'd say run it from Forest Hills to Jackson Sq. along Centre St. and loop it back from there.

I agree though that the route is a bit under-served, even with the #41.

Also, can we please get the articulated buses running past 8:45 - 9 PM? I know they used to be screechy nightmares that woke people up, but not anymore. It's no fun hopping on board a 40' #39 at 10 PM on a Friday and trying to get from Copley to JP.

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Running Route 39 service to Jackson would be called Route 41, which is already there and has been around for a long time. Its never very crowded in JP, and that doesn't make the case for the MBTA to run more buses that way. It actually used to carry a lot more people back when the Orange Line was at Dudley, and people took it from JP to get the Orange Line at Dudley. Since the relocation of the Orange Line in 1987, many people from JP just walk to Green, Stonybrook, or Jackson statios.

http://www.mbta.com/uploadedFiles/Documents/Schedu...

They did at least restore Sunday service to Route 41 a few years ago. Most people I see riding Route 39 are going to jobs and activities in the Longwood Medical Area, Northeastern, and Back Bay. They aren't transfering to any other line, and wouldn't need more service to Jackson. Fewer stops would speed up the 39, but I think it already goes were a lot of people want to go.

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Instead of a bus, lets run a trolley or light rail from Copley Sq to Forest Hills.

Oh wait.

Well that's what I dream of any time I'm standing at the corner of Huntington and S. Huntington and three E trains roll by and I know there's no point getting on them to go just a few more blocks. Then the 39 finally arrives and it's stuffed to the gills.

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by EOT for these public meetings (i.e. we will NOT discuss that "other" service option) and the objections by the City of Boston about trivial things that are truly non-issues (such as "unslightly overhead wires"), the reality remains that, over the long term, restoring light rail to Forest Hills is still the best option for improving transportation in this corridor. IMO, the current plan to improve the bus service (which is a far cry from a true BRT service) is just bad design, as it still involves providing most of the physical infrastructure you would need for restoring light rail, yet still results in the reduced capacity and other limitations of a standard on-street bus service.

Then again, if MBTA management was actually concerned about providing frequent and reliable transportation instead of catering to political whims, light rail would have been restored along Centre Street 15 years ago.

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