{"id":7970,"date":"2025-04-13T21:25:33","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T01:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/?p=7970"},"modified":"2025-04-13T21:26:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T01:26:03","slug":"middleborough-mbta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/2025\/04\/13\/middleborough-mbta\/","title":{"rendered":"Middleborough (MBTA)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Wait, didn’t I already do this? Oh, OH…..that was the station now named Lakeville<\/a>! Okay. Well, here’s new Middleborough, opened as part of the South Coast extension. Well, I guess duty calls. With that, here’s …the last T station I have to cover on this blog. Let’s go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

The station configuration is pretty standard, with a singular side platform and 2 tracks, one used for freight movements. There’s a shelter at various spots along the platform, a departure board, another more modern board at the station entrance, ramps from West Grove St., a pedestrian path to a nearby side street, a sizeable parking lot which can get filled up VERY QUICKLY. GATRA also has a bus stop here, but the connection is rather bad. The platform itself is level, expected, and there’s also benches and whatnot. I don’t remember if they’re hostile or not. As for the station walkshed, unlike Lakeville, it’s actually pretty good, all things considered. I mean, yeah, it’s still a mile walk to Middleborough Center, but that’s A LOT BETTER than the alternative. Overall though, for a suburban station that’s pretty far from Boston, it’s not that bad!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Departure board!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The old layover facility<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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OH NO – HOSTILE BENCH!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Towards Boston<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Towards the Cotley wye, Fall River, and New Bedford<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Another shot of the layover facility<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Parking<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Signage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Shelter!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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BICYCLE RACKS!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Parking lot and clouds<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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West Grove St.!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Kiss n’ ride!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The mainline to Hyannis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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My train back was delayed greatly. \ud83d\ude41<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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GET ME OUTTA HERE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The good: It’s pretty close to Middleborough Center! The walkshed’s actually REALLY good, all things considered. It’s also intended primarily as the I-495 parking sink, and the amount of parking roughly parallels Lakeville (& really, there’s not much you can do with extra space if the station is in a wye). Furthermore, it’s got your usual modern-day station affairs and whatnot.

The bad: Really, I can’t think of many bad things. I guess the fact it’s got one platform when there REALLY SHOULD BE TWO is bad, ops-wise. Eww.

Nearby points of interest: Middleborough Center is a mile away!

Transit connections:
Commuter Rail (Fall River, New Bedford)
GATRA (Link 4, Downtown Middleborough Shuttle)

Overall, in terms of location, this is probably one of the best non-downtown stations on the entire system. It’s suburban in nature, yes it’s a park & ride, but it’s also not that<\/em> bad for pedestrian access, all things considered. Could it be better? Of course. But, at least an attempt was made to accommodate pedestrian access from the nearby neighborhoods.

Rating: 7.5\/10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wait, didn’t I already do this? Oh, OH…..that was the station now named Lakeville! Okay. Well, here’s new Middleborough, opened as part of the South Coast extension. Well, I guess duty calls. With that, here’s …the last T station I have to cover on this blog. Let’s go. The station configuration is pretty standard, with … Continue reading “Middleborough (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-7970","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\/7970","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=7970"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9101,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7970\/revisions\/9101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}