{"id":7958,"date":"2025-03-05T21:50:21","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T01:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/?p=7958"},"modified":"2025-03-05T21:50:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T01:50:21","slug":"south-weymouth-mbta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/2025\/03\/05\/south-weymouth-mbta\/","title":{"rendered":"South Weymouth (MBTA)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

South Weymouth is yet another Kingston Line station, however unlike most of them, there’s actually stuff nearby! Let’s look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

So, the station is copy-pasted largely (unsurprising), complete with wastebaskets, benches, yellow dot matrix signage, and even an expansive parking lot! But, in a shocking twist of fate, there’s GOOD LAND USE?! WOAH! Yeah, shockingly, there’s TOD here! On BOTH sides of the track no less! You have two apartment complexes, a pizza place, and then usual suburbia once you get a little ways out. Fun fact, though, this actually used to be a naval air station! Sadly, though, no buses go out here – with the route 226 bus to Braintree <\/a>being a 1 and a half mile walk north. Nevertheless, it’s not that bad a station!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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TRAIN<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bye!!!!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Platform shot towards Kingston & Plymouth<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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And towards Braintree and South Station!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Parking!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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LONG LIVE OUR SAVIOR, THE BOLLARD!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Outdated map!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Someone removed signage. Oops.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Housing!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Cycling infrastructure!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Trottier Rd. grade crossing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Housing!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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It calls itself a diner but doesn’t bear the prefab diner appearance…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Watershed signage!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The good: Usual Kingston Line talking points. Platform amenities. Shelter. Full level boarding. Also, the land use is actually pretty good!

The bad: The 226 really should run down here… Also, I can’t help but feel this station is just begging<\/em> to be double tracked…

Nearby points of interest: It’s suburbia, but Columbian Square is a little ways north with the 226!

Transit connections:
Commuter Rail (Kingston)

Overall, I’d say this might just be the best station on the entire line, boiling to land use. Good job, Weymouth!!!

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

South Weymouth is yet another Kingston Line station, however unlike most of them, there’s actually stuff nearby! Let’s look. So, the station is copy-pasted largely (unsurprising), complete with wastebaskets, benches, yellow dot matrix signage, and even an expansive parking lot! But, in a shocking twist of fate, there’s GOOD LAND USE?! WOAH! Yeah, shockingly, there’s … Continue reading “South Weymouth (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-7958","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\/7958","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=7958"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8690,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7958\/revisions\/8690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}