{"id":7948,"date":"2025-03-14T10:00:55","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T14:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/?p=7948"},"modified":"2025-03-14T10:00:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T14:00:55","slug":"natick-center-mbta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/2025\/03\/14\/natick-center-mbta\/","title":{"rendered":"Natick Center (MBTA)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Natick Center is currently undergoing reconstruction, so this really is only a station review of the temporary low-level platform. As such, I will almost certainly have to revisit this station once the much-delayed construction is finished. With that in mind, here’s Natick Center!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Station signage!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Located in the MetroWest region, Natick Center is, as the name suggests, located in downtown Natick. The station presently consists of two low-level platforms, stairs AND a ramp down, a bench, a wastebasket, lighting, and a wholeass construction site. There’s also a bus connection on Main Street to various MWRTA bus routes. Land use around the station, being in downtown Natick, is pretty good! Oh yeah, there’s even a D I N E R (I think featured in the Miles in Transit Boston-area Diner Video<\/a>?<\/em>) in walking distance, which is sick. I actually should come visit it and get food some time. Moving right along, that’s unfortunately about it for the area. There isn’t even any info displays that tell you if a train is boarding on the other track, which may or may not have led to everyone making a mad dash to the #1 track…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hot damn!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bye!!! (as she pollutes the entire area)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bench!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Platform shot towards Boston!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The other platform!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The bigass ramps under construction<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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And the stairs up. They’re kinda rusting a little…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Don’t fuck with OSHA!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This website does not support Donald Trump. Fuck Trump and Fuck Musk.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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More proper signage!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Natick!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Footbridge!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Thank you, Mayor Pete!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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MWRTA MENTIONED!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Natick Common…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The good: It’s located in downtown Natick, which is always nice! Furthermore, it’s becoming accessible! And the MWRTA serves it!

The bad: The temporary station is barren! The rebuild’s been delayed many a times, AND there’s not even passenger info displays! This may have led to a mad dash from one platform to the other…yeah……

Nearby points of interest: Downtown Natick and the D I N E R!

Transit connections:
Commuter Rail (Worcester)
MWRTA (10, 11, Natick Commuter Shuttle, MathWorks Shuttle)

Overall, I’ll almost certainly have to revisit after it’s finished being rebuilt, but for now, it’s………bad. \ud83d\ude41

Rating: 2\/10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Natick Center is currently undergoing reconstruction, so this really is only a station review of the temporary low-level platform. As such, I will almost certainly have to revisit this station once the much-delayed construction is finished. With that in mind, here’s Natick Center! Located in the MetroWest region, Natick Center is, as the name suggests, … Continue reading “Natick Center (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":[16,5,8,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-massachusetts","category-mbta","category-othertransit","category-public-transit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7948","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=7948"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8858,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7948\/revisions\/8858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}