{"id":7929,"date":"2024-11-04T18:39:32","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T22:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/?p=7929"},"modified":"2024-11-04T18:41:31","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T22:41:31","slug":"greenbush-mbta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/2024\/11\/04\/greenbush-mbta\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenbush (MBTA)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Woah, a new terminal station entry?! Yep. I took a trip out to Scituate and decided to check the place out, ride GATRA GO (RIP the SLOOP \ud83d\ude41 ), and do two station entries (this & North Scituate). So, welcome to Greenbush!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Or, “Frank M. Hynes Station at Greenbush”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Greenbush is your standard Old Colony-esque terminal station with a decently-sized parking lot, an on-site yard, and relatively minimal bus connections (or even signs a bus connection exists!). The platform is sheltered, there’s benches, and unusually a red dot matrix sign (rather than the usual yellow on the Kingston and Middleborough Lines – though, the Greenbush Line came a full decade after those). Around the station is not a lot, there’s some convenience stores, a restaurant or two, and transit-oriented housing. However, it is not “affordable”, but rather “luxury” housing. Yikes. Now, in terms of bus connections…..it’s GATRA GO<\/a>. Again. Historically, it was the SLOOP (Scituate Loop), but that got killed off earlier this year and I never had the chance to ride it. Tragic. However, there is a marina close by!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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End of the line!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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GREENBUSH<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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At least it’s a full high level platform!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Luxury housing?! Is this compliant with the MBTA Communities Act?!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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TRAIN<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The layover facility!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Welcome to Greenbush!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The station from afar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Back towards South Station!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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HOLY SHIT IS THAT A SLOOP LIVERY?! OH MY FUCKING GOD!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The good: It’s sorta close to housing and, despite being a park & ride, is in a somewhat walkable area! And, there used to be a second parking lot that actually got redeveloped into the aforementioned luxury housing! Train service is also slightly more frequent vs. most of the system on weekends! Lastly, the platform is a full high level affair. Sweet!

The bad: No affordable housing nearby! Yeah, I know, it’s not part of the station itself, but I feel like land use matters with cookie cutter-esque station entries! And here, it’s all luxury housing primarily! Or, suburbia. I mean hey, it could be worse, some stations have only a country club in their walkshed…

Nearby points of interest: Some shopping plazas, a golf course, a marina, and luxury housing. There’s actually a little bit going on near here, even if it’s not the town center or Scituate Harbor.

Transit connections:
Commuter Rail (Greenbush)
GATRA (GATRA GO – RIP the SLOOP)

Overall, as far as park & rides go, it actually isn’t that bad. Granted, land use could be better, and there really oughta be affordable and mixed-use development around here, but it certainly could be worse…

Rating: 7\/10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Woah, a new terminal station entry?! Yep. I took a trip out to Scituate and decided to check the place out, ride GATRA GO (RIP the SLOOP \ud83d\ude41 ), and do two station entries (this & North Scituate). So, welcome to Greenbush! Greenbush is your standard Old Colony-esque terminal station with a decently-sized parking lot, … Continue reading “Greenbush (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":[6,16,5,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gatra","category-massachusetts","category-mbta","category-public-transit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7929","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=7929"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8102,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7929\/revisions\/8102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}