{"id":7942,"date":"2024-12-14T00:02:11","date_gmt":"2024-12-14T04:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/?p=7942"},"modified":"2024-12-16T22:08:11","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T02:08:11","slug":"littleton-i-495-mbta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/2024\/12\/14\/littleton-i-495-mbta\/","title":{"rendered":"Littleton\/I-495 (MBTA)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Littleton\/495 is a big park & ride station out in, well, Littleton. Located adjacent to the interchange between Rte. 2 and I-495 off Foster Street, it’s surprisingly very rural. Well, I endured an arctic blast to be able to talk about this station. So, here we are, at Littleton\/I-495.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

The station is like most park & ride locations in that it does not have a station house or anything. It’s also located pretty far from anything walkable and, as such, gets most of its ridership from people driving in from places like Boxborough, Westford, and Harvard. Hell, MART even runs a peak-hour shuttle from here to Harvard’s town hall. Outside that, the platform is an island with a pretty standard setup. Two tracks, and a ramp to the parking lots. Yellow dot matrix signs exist, as does some history and benches. Nevertheless, this station is a big improvement from what existed before 2013. Just imagine a rinky dinky little shitty microstation with about 20 spots, similar to Ayer in appearance. Yeah. This one’s a big improvement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Train departing to lay over past the point of the crossing circuit activating<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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There she is laying over<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The rest of the platform<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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There’s I-495 and the train laying over<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Yellow dot matrix signage!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A longass ramp<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Benches!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Overpass shot and the Foster St. crossing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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And towards Fitchburg!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Salty!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The ramp from the parking lot!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Station shot!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A busway???<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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LITTLETON\/RTE 495 yet Forge Park just says FORGE PARK\/495<\/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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MA Rte. 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Foster St. crossing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Another crossing shot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This was the old parking lot.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Eh…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The only thing in walking distance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The old station was at the location of the northbound track here<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This is desolate…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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History!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The good: It’s a bigass park & ride off the junction of two highways! It’s also fully accessible!

The bad: …there’s nothing nearby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nearby points of interest: Absolutely nothing. Seriously. Absolutely freakin’ nothing.

Transit connections:
Commuter Rail (Fitchburg)
MART (Boston Shuttle, Harvard Commuter)

Overall, yeah it’s nothing special to go home about. Sorry. \ud83d\ude41

Rating: 6\/10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Littleton\/495 is a big park & ride station out in, well, Littleton. Located adjacent to the interchange between Rte. 2 and I-495 off Foster Street, it’s surprisingly very rural. Well, I endured an arctic blast to be able to talk about this station. So, here we are, at Littleton\/I-495. The station is like most park … Continue reading “Littleton\/I-495 (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-7942","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\/7942","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=7942"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8230,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7942\/revisions\/8230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}