{"id":1073,"date":"2022-06-09T16:54:55","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T20:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/?p=1073"},"modified":"2022-06-29T12:41:31","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T16:41:31","slug":"78-pawtucket-beverage-hill-ave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/2022\/06\/09\/78-pawtucket-beverage-hill-ave\/","title":{"rendered":"78 (Pawtucket\/Beverage Hill Ave.)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ooh, beverage hills, you say? Is it beer and other 21+ drinks we’re talking, or water? Or, soda? Who knows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Memorial Boulevard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Right from the get-go, we cross the river to South Water Street and immediately go express, only to be dumped off the interstate at Taunton Avenue. It’s a largely straight shot as we went through the bowtie interchange and turned towards Wampanoag Mall. From here, one can transfer to the 32<\/a> or 34<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Interstate 195<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A church!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Wampanoag Mall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After this deviation, we kept going up Pawtucket Avenue, largely following the 35<\/a>. However, unlike the 35, we didn’t turn down any side streets. We went up Newport Avenue and, eventually, made a left onto Beverage Hill Avenue. A deviation is also here, but only for inbound trips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Trees!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Some houses and vehicles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A cemetary<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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More housing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Construction!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Where’s the beverages?!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

No, there were no beverages on Beverage Hill Avenue. Sadly. But there was lots of residential, and a rail crossing at George Bennett Highway. As we booked it down the road, we turned down Prospect Street, a one-way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Not beverages \ud83d\ude41<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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So there ARE beverages! Just….adult beverages.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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At the end of the road<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We turned down and went straight, going under I-95. Soon enough, we were in downtown Pawtucket at the end of the line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some buildings<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Whelp, here we are.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Two R Line<\/a> buses, the 76<\/a>, and the 78 all laying over.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The good: It serves a lot! In my experience, there’s also a consistent stream of people riding, which is always good. Plus, it’s expected to get a frequency boost and “key corridor” designation in the winter, with the buses being re-routed to the Pawtucket\/Central Falls train station busway. That said….

The bad: I don’t think ridership is high enough to justify a frequency boost. Yes, it’s nice. However, I think the boost should go to the 72<\/a> instead, as that route has more than double the ridership (1700 vs. 700). Furthermore, what’s with the odd inbound-only deviation?

Nearby points of interest: East Providence and Pawtucket, largely.

Overall, it’s definitely a decent enough Pawtucket\/Providence route via East Providence. Does it warrant a frequency boost? Not really. However, it’s always nice to have the option. I do, however, think that weekends SHOULD see a frequency boost to match weekday frequency.

Rating: 7.5\/10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ooh, beverage hills, you say? Is it beer and other 21+ drinks we’re talking, or water? Or, soda? Who knows. Right from the get-go, we cross the river to South Water Street and immediately go express, only to be dumped off the interstate at Taunton Avenue. It’s a largely straight shot as we went through … Continue reading “78 (Pawtucket\/Beverage Hill Ave.)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public-transit","category-ripta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1073"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1910,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions\/1910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}