{"id":7171,"date":"2024-05-02T10:41:29","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T14:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/?p=7171"},"modified":"2024-05-02T10:41:29","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T14:41:29","slug":"ashland-mbta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/2024\/05\/02\/ashland-mbta\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashland (MBTA)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ashland, when coming from Boston, is the first of four infill stations built in the early 21st century on the way to Worcester. It also seen a massive rebuild as of late. So, let’s look at it, shall we?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Helvetica!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The station is your standard Worcester Line infill, bearing many a similarity to Westborough<\/a>. It’s the closest station to the town’s downtown (Grafton is in no man’s land, Westborough is far from downtown, and Southborough is also pretty far), there’s a MWRTA bus connection, and an ample amount of parking. You also have a standard mini-high platform and a metal overpass. Woah. Downtown is a 1 mile walk away, neat! Benches are also found on the platform, and on the overpass as well. Yeah, I don’t have much specifically to say about this station other than that its mere location makes it the best of the bunch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Train!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Departure board!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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That’s a lot of parking!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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HSP!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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That’s one hell of an overpass!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Approaching the Main St. crossing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The High St. overpass towards Worcester<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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That’s a lot of parking!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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MWRTA busway?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Where’s the catenary, then??<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Another train!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The good: It’s close to the town center, only a mile away (roughly)! Furthermore, it’s the most recently rebuilt out of all the stations as of writing this, so it has modern amenities like a departure board and whatnot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bad: The bus connection isn’t exactly frequent, being approximately every hour and a half. Furthermore, the station is only a mini-high. And, why isn’t this in the town center??? Granted, it’s only a mile out so it’s a lot better than certain other offenders<\/em>, but it’s still annoying.

Nearby points of interest: The town center is close by, be it a 3 minute MWRTA ride or a 20 minute walk! There’s also a nearby apartment complex.

Transit connections:
Commuter Rail (Worcester)
MWRTA (5)

Overall, for the infills between Framingham and Worcester, this is probably the best one with location and transit connections. So, as such, this gets a higher score.

Rating: 8\/10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ashland, when coming from Boston, is the first of four infill stations built in the early 21st century on the way to Worcester. It also seen a massive rebuild as of late. So, let’s look at it, shall we? The station is your standard Worcester Line infill, bearing many a similarity to Westborough. It’s the … Continue reading “Ashland (MBTA)”<\/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":[16,5,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-massachusetts","category-mbta","category-public-transit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7171","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=7171"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7187,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7171\/revisions\/7187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}