{"id":7974,"date":"2025-04-07T17:34:26","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T21:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/?p=7974"},"modified":"2025-04-07T17:34:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T21:34:26","slug":"freetown-mbta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/2025\/04\/07\/freetown-mbta\/","title":{"rendered":"Freetown (MBTA)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Freetown, at face value, may as well be the modern-day take on a “cute little neighborhood station”. But, is it? No. It’s got all the important stuff a station needs, a lot of undeveloped land around it, and is right off Route 24. Unfortunately…..that doesn’t play favorably into this station…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

The platform, much like the other South Coast stations, is a fully-level 800ft affair, with shelters, ramps, departure boards, and surprisingly little parking. Yeah, while Fall River’s lot was small because it has a weird footprint and is near downtown, Freetown’s is just small …seemingly for the sake of being small. But, it exists! Furthermore, you have not a lot in the station’s walkshed. Mostly, it’s houses – however, Stop & Shop has a distribution center across the street from here! Neat! There’s some cycling infrastructure here, too – however I use the term loosely as it’s just painting indicating you could<\/em> cycle on the road. Yeah, not a lot to say about Freetown. The land use kinda sucks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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train<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I spy an HSP…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Schedule plaque<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Gah, so much land…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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That’s it for parking?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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TRAIN<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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See ya!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Freight siding?!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Trees galore<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A storage facility of some kind<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A footpath and Jules…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Another parking lot shot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Water feature!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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BUILD A DUNKS HERE!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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GET US OUTTA HERE!!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The good: It exists! It also serves the Stop & Shop DC. It’s also accessible.

The bad: WHY DOESN’T THIS HAVE MICROTRANSIT, SRTA?! LEGIT, THIS IS THE ONE PART WHERE MICROTRANSIT DOES<\/em> MAKE SENSE – WHAT THE SHARTS?! JESUS FUCKING CHIRST. ALSO, THERE’S NOTHING OUT HERE – LEGITIMATLEY NOTHING. FREETOWN COULD REDEVELOP THIS AREA INTO A TOD DISTRICT OR SOMETHING!

Nearby points of interest: Just a Stop & Shop DC.

Transit connections:
Commuter Rail (Fall River)

Overall, UPZONE, UPZONE, UPZONE!!!!! ALSO RUN MICROTRANSIT.

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

Freetown, at face value, may as well be the modern-day take on a “cute little neighborhood station”. But, is it? No. It’s got all the important stuff a station needs, a lot of undeveloped land around it, and is right off Route 24. Unfortunately…..that doesn’t play favorably into this station… The platform, much like the … Continue reading “Freetown (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-7974","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\/7974","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=7974"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9056,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7974\/revisions\/9056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}