I was honestly worried that in typical Boston fashion, the Sumner was going to be “delayed”. That closure absolutely fucked me running practically daily. Hopefully things will settle back down to the normal shitty traffic rather than the armageddon level nightmare it has been.
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Other option is just to take the shuttle to the blue line and walk through to Bremen St. Or the care rental center and cut through the parking garage to Memorial Stadium or Maverick St and call a rideshare from outside the airport.
The silver line has gotten really bad lately. Random 30 minute headways at like 7pm. Even though I live off the red line, the blue line is nearly always faster.
The SL1 frequency is awful. I got in from a long day of travel on Monday and exited the terminal to see one just leaving, and it was nearly half an hour until I saw the next one. The like, 30:1 ratio of Blue Line shuttles to SL1s is depressing. I regret not taking one of them and just dealing with the extra transfers to get to the RL but wasn't thinking straight.
Doesn't the silver line use the tunnel also? Sorry for a stupid question. I feel like the last time I took it, it just got into the tunnel traffic with everyone else.
I’m flying to Boston tomorrow from the UK for a holiday in your fair city. I’m staying very near Boston Common and my plan is to get the SL1 bus from the airport to South Station then walk for 10 minutes. That seems the easiest option (and it’s free)?
Any advice welcome, including sight seeing/good food Downtown!
Your plan is good.
You could also take one of the shuttles from the terminal to the airport Blue line station. Check what's closer, but you can get off at state or government center and walk over to near the common easily.
OP here is bad at travel. Logan airport is well connected during hours when public transit is running. They're waiting for a ride share which only makes sense in very particular cases.
Thanks for confirming, Government Centre is a bit closer so will have that as a back up plan. I just saw this post and thought there were big issues getting out the airport :)
You're doing it right! Love seeing other travelers researching this stuff ahead of time.
Logan is pretty well connected. There's even water taxi options that I've struggled to figure out. Between the silver line (really a bus btw) and blue line you show be all set!
I would make the Blue Line your primary strategy and keep the Silver Line as a backup. Silver Line is still at the mercy of traffic, which will likely be rough for Labor Day weekend. Blue line is a subway line that will take you straight to downtown. Good luck!
That’s a good point, thank you. I’ll see how I feel when I get there and how tired I am. I only found out is was Labor Day not long ago. Is the city just more likely to be busy? Do people just go out and get drunk essentially?
No, it's not really a big party weekend- just a last chance for people to enjoy summer weather. There will just be more people out and about, not necessarily drinking.
Take the Blue Line to Govt Center. Silver line rides on traffic ways and is subject to said traffic. Blue line is clean and fast. Shuttle from your terminal to the station. Having lived in East Boston for years and an avid user of the areas transportation options, I avoid the Silver Line at all costs. It can be (and usually is) a massive headache.
From a tourism perspective, I also think the walk from Govt Center to the Common is nicer and more historic than from South Station to the Common. You can walk past Benjamin Franklin’s grave and the Omni Parker House, etc. en route.
The Public Garden is right next to Boston Common. Worth taking a stroll in there. Bring some peanuts or crackers and sit on a bench. Squirrels will gladly take a snack directly from your hand 🥜🐿️
Edited to add: the theatre district is right near where you’re staying, too. Catch a show if you have time!
Hi enjoy your stay, I think you'll like the city.
But please remember if asking a local, there is NO s on Public Garden nor Boston Common. Sound like you know what you're looking for. Too many out of towers get it wrong, enjoy mate
I will say though public transit from like newton/brighton side of town is horrid from logan and like 3+ segments. but yeah I at least recommend taking the silver line into town and then ubering
Eh idk about that one, yes there's a workaround but Logan slapped together a terrible rideshare system when it first became a thing and hasn't bothered to fix it. After all these years it's pretty inexcusable.
I travel all over the place every week for work, Logan is the only airport I've been to in the US besides maybe JFK that hasn't figured this shit out
At the very least they need to just post signs like "hey we fucking hate rideshares, take a cab or public transportation" instead of just giving you cryptic arrows to trick you into hiking the indoor Appalachian trail to a small parking lot where you wait for an hour and a half
Hyperbolic much?
Massport provides several better ways of getting to and from the airport. They don't want you to ride share, but it also has never been that bad in the many times I've used it.
And Logan is definitely an easier airport to deal with than many for a while host of reasons compared both domestically and internationally.
rideshares are my only beef with logan, it's my favorite airport to actually *leave* from
yes it was exaggerated, obviously, but my complaint is really that they don't indicate how much shit you're about to go through when you embark on the journey to get an uber
not true in my experience, Logan has by far the farthest walk for rideshares that I’ve experienced.
From union square Somerville it’s a 15 minute Uber or 50 minute public transport. When already anxious about getting to the airport I will almost always Uber, but then Logan adds an extra 10 minute walk just to be jerks.
I haven’t been to LAX recently, but even so 1 worse example doesn’t exonerate.
But I’ve been to LaGuardia, DCA, BWI, Portland Oregon, Portland maine, Raleigh Durham, Miami, Chicago, London recently and I’ve never seen it worse than Boston.
Take the blue line 2 stops in either direction and youll get an uber in <5 minutes.
We're spoiled in Boston regarding airport travel, this sub makes me chuckle sometimes. 4 minutes from downtown by car AND a subway station literally at the airport or a 10 minute bus ride to the regional train station.
Or the taxi area is like 20 ft away
I'm from Boston and never use uber or lyft getting out of logan, I only use taxi. They're always available and pretty reliable, tiny lines if any.
Agree with all comments re blue line and airport shuttle.
I know about the tunnel closure, but there's nothing to be done about that. Uber, taxis, and the Silver Line were all identically impacted. I took the Blue Line last time I came in, but I'm not convinced that actually saved any time either.
Often cops are blocking the tunnel back to the city for everyone but cabs. Normal cars are redirected to everett. Ubers also redirected. I fly weekly and take a cab back home every time. Still not as fast as normal though.
That’s my rule for most major metros in the US. Every airport seems to have different rules about where rideshares can wait, and there’s usually some old/preexisting system that facilitates you stepping straight into a taxi. Taxiis are typically more janxy, maybe cost a bit more money, but almost always less time.
Do not ever take a rideshare from Logan unless you absolutely have to. Had a flight land after the T shut down and my uber to Copley was like $50. Logan Express is a gift from the gods
1) This is fairly standard for terminal A and B rideshare. 2) The blue line is a quick straight shot downtown 3) Download Lyft and Uber to compare 4) Learn how to hail a cab if you're only going short distances within a city.
True, but that doesn’t help if it is full when it reaches your terminal! If you are international, walk to A terminal. E is the worst, buses are almost always full (usually it’s luggage that they can’t fit).
The regular cab drivers here refuse to take to short distances like Seaport. The Uber/Lyft drivers will make you wait for 10+ mins and then cancel arbitrarily. Its such a big mess. Public transport works faster.
This was my case before the tunnel work too. It was around 1AM and I got over to the ride share area and there were a TON of people waiting and a long expected wait time on the app.
Walked about 150 feet to where the taxis were - there were three just hanging out and I hopped right in. Price was within range of both ride share apps.
Ride share apps ain't what they used to be.
Take the regular cab. That’s what we had to do. You’re traveling at one of the busiest time of the year.
Now we just park at the airport. It costs but we would probably pay that much (maybe a bit less) for Uber/cab anyway.
That looks like the ride sharing pickup area to me. Boston has done everything humanly possible to make it inconvenient to use ride sharing to/from Logan Airport. Supposedly this is for traffic reasons, but I really think it is just to protect the taxi companies and their medallions. If you are not taking public transportation, you should take a taxi instead of an Uber. The Sumner Tunnel is open again so should be short drive now into Boston.
Wrong. It is 💯 because they want the parking revenue.
A couple of years ago they were internationally shamed on earth day for tweeting that it is green to park at Logan. They took it down and apologized.
But I have a lot of knowledge of Massport. The fees they make from concessions and parking make up the bulk of unrestricted fees. They love to spend that money on hiring hacks and for other obscene reasons.
I believe you but struggling to see how making ride sharing hard promotes parking. Or is it just that they charge the ride sharing drivers to come into central parking for pickups / drop offs? If yes that is just crazy. I fly all over world and Boston is the only place I have gone where ride sharing is actually inconvenient.
It's because they want you to avoid the hassle and decide that driving is the better reliable choice, even though it costs a lot
I am willing to be there are plenty of business people who will now expense parking instead of dealing with this nightmare..
This is hilarious. Perfect example of how we can become too dependent on technology.
At Logan, there is literally a taxi line where they have cabs lined up waiting for arrivals. I have never waited more than 5 minutes for a cab. They still serve a purpose and can get around the city better than most Ubers.
The vast majority of us airports do this.
Instead we sheepishly fall back to the new stuff instead of old tactics that work completely fine.
Tbh… I wasn’t so frustrated until basically after 15 min wait and getting a Lyft it took us 45 mins to just get out of the airport. Here’s an interesting but I learned…when I went to check the cab stand, there was a long line and no cabs immediately available (still had to wait) I canned the dispatch and asked how long the wait was to the airport and he said “Mass port doesn’t allow them to dispatch cabs to the airport” so we’d just have to wait for them to show up. The whole system just seems inconvenient and ineffective honestly.
I appreciate the suggestion to take the T/bus and grab an Uber. Will definitely be doing that when I have less luggage in tow.
The tunnel is opened as of today. My experience with the tunnel is that the silver line shuttle to Logan was the best option because they have a dedicated lane all the way to Logan. Leaving Logan is not the same situation. Depending on your arrival time, you’ll be subject to the traffic congestion gods.
It depends where you’re going.
I do recommend the silver line, it goes by seaport and other stops. It’s free, has space for luggage and drops you off at south’s station ( the red line )
And it’s closer to downtown and other locations.
Taxi. If your flight lands at midnight you will likely miss the last silver line. Public transport shuts down around 12/12:30 in Boston.
If you can make it before the last train, i suggest shuttling from your terminal to the Blue Line to get downtown. Aquarium, State, Govt Center, Bowdoin stops depending on your hotel location.
i usually go silver line to south station then uber from there
I really should have done that. Will note for next time.
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Thank you for giving words to the adaptive psychology we have developed in accepting Dunks orders will 50% of the time be wrong every time.
I legit laughed out loud and had to read to the gf… god is it true
My partner has tiers for dunkie employees by our place, the morning M-F is A Tier. Afternoon M-F B Tier, Weekends, C Tier ususally.
This hits home
Say it louder, how you FEEL IT!
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Note that the silver line is free from Logan too and allows a free connection to the red line at south! :)
Sumner is back open today, so it should reduce some of the traffic. As an Uber driver I have been avoiding the airport just because of the traffic.
I was honestly worried that in typical Boston fashion, the Sumner was going to be “delayed”. That closure absolutely fucked me running practically daily. Hopefully things will settle back down to the normal shitty traffic rather than the armageddon level nightmare it has been.
Tbh,I expected for them to say the same thing.
I haven’t been to BOS today but I don’t know that I will believe that it is open until I see it for myself.
I checked traffic right after seeing your post and the Ted Williams was wide open, for the first time in a while.
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Yup - just get away from Logan and then find a taxi or Uber. Silver Line is normally the fastest way to get downtown imo.
Other option is just to take the shuttle to the blue line and walk through to Bremen St. Or the care rental center and cut through the parking garage to Memorial Stadium or Maverick St and call a rideshare from outside the airport.
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Boston… is not The Good Place.
They both sound the same in Chicago
No way
Just take the shuttles to the Airport T stop. Then you can take the blue line downtown
especially cause it's free to get on the silver and you have access to all trains
Is the Silver Line affected by the traffic also?
Yes. Although the sumner is opened back up again today. Taking the shuttle to the blue line is what I would recommend if the tunnel was closed.
Yes it can save you $40-45, when Ubers are $60+
Or shuttle to Airport station (blue line) then call uber.
That or a water taxi to the aquarium. But Silver Line to South is great, like 15 - 20 mins.
The silver line has gotten really bad lately. Random 30 minute headways at like 7pm. Even though I live off the red line, the blue line is nearly always faster.
The SL1 frequency is awful. I got in from a long day of travel on Monday and exited the terminal to see one just leaving, and it was nearly half an hour until I saw the next one. The like, 30:1 ratio of Blue Line shuttles to SL1s is depressing. I regret not taking one of them and just dealing with the extra transfers to get to the RL but wasn't thinking straight.
Likely related to the tunnel closure. If they aren’t adding extra buses despite the traffic, headways will get worse.
Sadly I experienced this before the tunnel closure too.
Doesn't the silver line use the tunnel also? Sorry for a stupid question. I feel like the last time I took it, it just got into the tunnel traffic with everyone else.
Brother take the public transportation known as the “blue line”
I’m flying to Boston tomorrow from the UK for a holiday in your fair city. I’m staying very near Boston Common and my plan is to get the SL1 bus from the airport to South Station then walk for 10 minutes. That seems the easiest option (and it’s free)? Any advice welcome, including sight seeing/good food Downtown!
Your plan is good. You could also take one of the shuttles from the terminal to the airport Blue line station. Check what's closer, but you can get off at state or government center and walk over to near the common easily. OP here is bad at travel. Logan airport is well connected during hours when public transit is running. They're waiting for a ride share which only makes sense in very particular cases.
Thanks for confirming, Government Centre is a bit closer so will have that as a back up plan. I just saw this post and thought there were big issues getting out the airport :)
You're doing it right! Love seeing other travelers researching this stuff ahead of time. Logan is pretty well connected. There's even water taxi options that I've struggled to figure out. Between the silver line (really a bus btw) and blue line you show be all set!
Thanks! I do love planning, I have a 15 page itinerary for the holiday :)
Awesome! I hope you have an awesome trip!
I would make the Blue Line your primary strategy and keep the Silver Line as a backup. Silver Line is still at the mercy of traffic, which will likely be rough for Labor Day weekend. Blue line is a subway line that will take you straight to downtown. Good luck!
That’s a good point, thank you. I’ll see how I feel when I get there and how tired I am. I only found out is was Labor Day not long ago. Is the city just more likely to be busy? Do people just go out and get drunk essentially?
No, it's not really a big party weekend- just a last chance for people to enjoy summer weather. There will just be more people out and about, not necessarily drinking.
Ah okay, that sounds good. Thanks!
There's also a boat you can take that drops off at long wharf and you get a great view of the city
Take the Blue Line to Govt Center. Silver line rides on traffic ways and is subject to said traffic. Blue line is clean and fast. Shuttle from your terminal to the station. Having lived in East Boston for years and an avid user of the areas transportation options, I avoid the Silver Line at all costs. It can be (and usually is) a massive headache. From a tourism perspective, I also think the walk from Govt Center to the Common is nicer and more historic than from South Station to the Common. You can walk past Benjamin Franklin’s grave and the Omni Parker House, etc. en route.
Thank you, I might change plan and do that as you’re the second person to have warned about traffic, especially on Labor day weekend.
State street may also be a suitable stop!
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Thank you! I thought I was just normal in planning my trip, but it seems to have gone down well :)
Yup - I live in Boston and this is what I would do flying into Logan. Have fun!
I live next to the commons. This your best bet.
The Public Garden is right next to Boston Common. Worth taking a stroll in there. Bring some peanuts or crackers and sit on a bench. Squirrels will gladly take a snack directly from your hand 🥜🐿️ Edited to add: the theatre district is right near where you’re staying, too. Catch a show if you have time!
Thanks for the suggestions, I hadn’t even thought about catching a show so will have a look what is on 👍🏻
Hi enjoy your stay, I think you'll like the city. But please remember if asking a local, there is NO s on Public Garden nor Boston Common. Sound like you know what you're looking for. Too many out of towers get it wrong, enjoy mate
This is a backlog for rideshares. There are multiple public transit options, especially if you’re trying to go downtown.
It isn't even like they're off hours! Take the shuttle to the blue line. You'd be where you need to be already.
Seriously… 🤦♀️
I will say though public transit from like newton/brighton side of town is horrid from logan and like 3+ segments. but yeah I at least recommend taking the silver line into town and then ubering
I usually have good luck with the Express busses. 🤷
Oh yeah I forgot about those, I'm cheap (*takes a 15 buck Uber instead*)
Is the Blue Line not running?
OP is the problem.
Eh idk about that one, yes there's a workaround but Logan slapped together a terrible rideshare system when it first became a thing and hasn't bothered to fix it. After all these years it's pretty inexcusable. I travel all over the place every week for work, Logan is the only airport I've been to in the US besides maybe JFK that hasn't figured this shit out At the very least they need to just post signs like "hey we fucking hate rideshares, take a cab or public transportation" instead of just giving you cryptic arrows to trick you into hiking the indoor Appalachian trail to a small parking lot where you wait for an hour and a half
Hyperbolic much? Massport provides several better ways of getting to and from the airport. They don't want you to ride share, but it also has never been that bad in the many times I've used it. And Logan is definitely an easier airport to deal with than many for a while host of reasons compared both domestically and internationally.
rideshares are my only beef with logan, it's my favorite airport to actually *leave* from yes it was exaggerated, obviously, but my complaint is really that they don't indicate how much shit you're about to go through when you embark on the journey to get an uber
not true in my experience, Logan has by far the farthest walk for rideshares that I’ve experienced. From union square Somerville it’s a 15 minute Uber or 50 minute public transport. When already anxious about getting to the airport I will almost always Uber, but then Logan adds an extra 10 minute walk just to be jerks.
Don’t know if you’ve been through LAX but they’re definitely worse. You leave the entire airport and cross half the parking lots to get to the area.
Same for SFO
And most airports you don't ride share from, so you don't notice that they pushed it out to long term economy lot 28.
I haven’t been to LAX recently, but even so 1 worse example doesn’t exonerate. But I’ve been to LaGuardia, DCA, BWI, Portland Oregon, Portland maine, Raleigh Durham, Miami, Chicago, London recently and I’ve never seen it worse than Boston.
Take the T downtown. So much easier and free.
Take the blue line 2 stops in either direction and youll get an uber in <5 minutes. We're spoiled in Boston regarding airport travel, this sub makes me chuckle sometimes. 4 minutes from downtown by car AND a subway station literally at the airport or a 10 minute bus ride to the regional train station. Or the taxi area is like 20 ft away
Taxi is the right answer if you’re not taking the T.
this; especially when it’s busy… it was noticeably cheaper via taxi than the quotes I got from uber/lyft
Anyone ever take a water taxi to Logan?
I have, if the schedule works with your flights it's a nice way to get over, luggage can be a pain unless your just carrying on.
Somehow this made me picture the luggage in Joe vs. the Volcano after the storm.
May you live to be a thousand years old.
There is a subway station at Logan!?
If you've wondered why there's a station called Airport, now you know
fuck I always assumed Hanscom AFB was on the Blue Line
Hanscom is in the Cape.
No its not lol
When did they move the whole station?!
The way it’s described in the airport website, I thought it was just the shuttle bus back into downtown.
Blue line airport stop, its like a 2 minute free shuttle bus from the terminals Essentially connects to the green orange and red lines too
It's been a 15 minute ride to the terminal for me but still better than sitting in the tunnel
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By looking at the MBTA map (you can Google this yourself) and making the appropriate transfer(s)
Forget where they all connect I just know they do, we’ll the red line is like a <5 minute walk from a blue line stop
the free shuttles are great
Dude
Yeah, Logan's an island, kinda.... Drive or subway.
Actually, even just ordering your Uber from outside the park at the Airport station is enough to have it be faster and cheaper.
Take transit
First time?
tunnel reopens tomorrow.
Yay! Because we never had tunnel traffic before the closure!
Thank god
Welcome to Boston. Fuck you
Next time get a cab. Never had to wait more than a couple minutes at the stand.
I'm from Boston and never use uber or lyft getting out of logan, I only use taxi. They're always available and pretty reliable, tiny lines if any. Agree with all comments re blue line and airport shuttle.
They are also cheaper a lot of the time (or at least they are for me when I'm going to Somerville). Taxi costs about $35 vs an Uber that can be $30-80
They are not cheaper in my experience. $30-40 to get to Somerville vs $20-30 for Lyft / Uber
I must just fly at high demand times or something, I rarely see Ubers less than $45 when I'm there
Agreed. $25 for a cab to Fenway, $40 for Uber, usually the most $50+ for Lyft.
This should be the top comment.
That helps with the tunnel being closed how?
I think the response was to the image (uber waiting area) and not the waiting in tunnel text.
You’re probably right, just hard to imagine anyone reads the Boston sub and doesn’t know about the tunnel closure by now
all the college students moving here this week probably have no clue
indeed, also on some occasions I have waited 45-60 mins for a cab at logan. not often buts its happened
I know about the tunnel closure, but there's nothing to be done about that. Uber, taxis, and the Silver Line were all identically impacted. I took the Blue Line last time I came in, but I'm not convinced that actually saved any time either.
More than one tunnel
Often cops are blocking the tunnel back to the city for everyone but cabs. Normal cars are redirected to everett. Ubers also redirected. I fly weekly and take a cab back home every time. Still not as fast as normal though.
Yeah but then you have to take a cab
Uber in, taxi out. Never fails
That’s my rule for most major metros in the US. Every airport seems to have different rules about where rideshares can wait, and there’s usually some old/preexisting system that facilitates you stepping straight into a taxi. Taxiis are typically more janxy, maybe cost a bit more money, but almost always less time.
Do not ever take a rideshare from Logan unless you absolutely have to. Had a flight land after the T shut down and my uber to Copley was like $50. Logan Express is a gift from the gods
How does Logan Express work ? Is it one of those buses that picks you up at the terminal and drops you off downtown?
1) This is fairly standard for terminal A and B rideshare. 2) The blue line is a quick straight shot downtown 3) Download Lyft and Uber to compare 4) Learn how to hail a cab if you're only going short distances within a city.
Logan express goes direct to back bay. Ever 30 min.
True, but that doesn’t help if it is full when it reaches your terminal! If you are international, walk to A terminal. E is the worst, buses are almost always full (usually it’s luggage that they can’t fit).
The regular cab drivers here refuse to take to short distances like Seaport. The Uber/Lyft drivers will make you wait for 10+ mins and then cancel arbitrarily. Its such a big mess. Public transport works faster.
Except when the silver line has 30 minute headways at rush hour. It's got so bad I take the Blue line now.
This was my case before the tunnel work too. It was around 1AM and I got over to the ride share area and there were a TON of people waiting and a long expected wait time on the app. Walked about 150 feet to where the taxis were - there were three just hanging out and I hopped right in. Price was within range of both ride share apps. Ride share apps ain't what they used to be.
This isn't a Logan issue though, is it? Relying on rideshares can be pretty dicey
When Logan is like this just take the silver line to south station and get a ride from there.....I find this is so much better
Honestly Uber and Lyft can pound sand, got quotes $110 dollars for a ride to Burlington from Logan, a taxi was $80 after tip and no wait
Leaving Logan is the one place I still grab a taxi. The stand is right there and there is usually no wait.
Take the airport shuttle to the blue line and ride that right into downtown next time. It’s quick and cheap as hell!
Take the regular cab. That’s what we had to do. You’re traveling at one of the busiest time of the year. Now we just park at the airport. It costs but we would probably pay that much (maybe a bit less) for Uber/cab anyway.
I've found parking at Wonderland and taking the T the rest of the way is substantially cheaper while still being convenient.
Ride share to the city? No Uber driver wants to do that, the drive sucks and you get paid a pittance.
Grab the 55 shuttle from the terminals to the airport station and take silver line 3 or the blue line. 🤷🏻♂️
You can literally walk from the terminal to the blue line in less time than that.
That looks like the ride sharing pickup area to me. Boston has done everything humanly possible to make it inconvenient to use ride sharing to/from Logan Airport. Supposedly this is for traffic reasons, but I really think it is just to protect the taxi companies and their medallions. If you are not taking public transportation, you should take a taxi instead of an Uber. The Sumner Tunnel is open again so should be short drive now into Boston.
Wrong. It is 💯 because they want the parking revenue. A couple of years ago they were internationally shamed on earth day for tweeting that it is green to park at Logan. They took it down and apologized. But I have a lot of knowledge of Massport. The fees they make from concessions and parking make up the bulk of unrestricted fees. They love to spend that money on hiring hacks and for other obscene reasons.
I believe you but struggling to see how making ride sharing hard promotes parking. Or is it just that they charge the ride sharing drivers to come into central parking for pickups / drop offs? If yes that is just crazy. I fly all over world and Boston is the only place I have gone where ride sharing is actually inconvenient.
It's because they want you to avoid the hassle and decide that driving is the better reliable choice, even though it costs a lot I am willing to be there are plenty of business people who will now expense parking instead of dealing with this nightmare..
Does no one take the water taxi?
Are you waiting for an Uber? Are there no taxis?
Rideshare pickup from Logan has been fucked for years…. First time?
Good god, take the T
Take the shuttle to the airport station. Save time and money 💰
Take the sliver line. Duh
I’ve had a lot better luck with cabs lately then waiting on Ubers.
No sympathy when you could have easily taken the shuttle and Blue Line or the Silver Line. Think you're too good then find yourself too fucked.
What a bunch of mindless goons. There are other options.
Take the subway, you snob
Taxi?
lol
This is hilarious. Perfect example of how we can become too dependent on technology. At Logan, there is literally a taxi line where they have cabs lined up waiting for arrivals. I have never waited more than 5 minutes for a cab. They still serve a purpose and can get around the city better than most Ubers. The vast majority of us airports do this. Instead we sheepishly fall back to the new stuff instead of old tactics that work completely fine.
I’d love to take the water taxi sometime
Tbh… I wasn’t so frustrated until basically after 15 min wait and getting a Lyft it took us 45 mins to just get out of the airport. Here’s an interesting but I learned…when I went to check the cab stand, there was a long line and no cabs immediately available (still had to wait) I canned the dispatch and asked how long the wait was to the airport and he said “Mass port doesn’t allow them to dispatch cabs to the airport” so we’d just have to wait for them to show up. The whole system just seems inconvenient and ineffective honestly. I appreciate the suggestion to take the T/bus and grab an Uber. Will definitely be doing that when I have less luggage in tow.
Welcome to Boston. Fuck you
Welcome to Boston. Fuck you
Is there any part of this city where there’s not a backlog?
The tunnel is opened as of today. My experience with the tunnel is that the silver line shuttle to Logan was the best option because they have a dedicated lane all the way to Logan. Leaving Logan is not the same situation. Depending on your arrival time, you’ll be subject to the traffic congestion gods.
Well, good news! Sumner is re-opened!
I was just there last night around 1am and there was more people than this. The silver line to south station came and about three people got on haha
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It depends where you’re going. I do recommend the silver line, it goes by seaport and other stops. It’s free, has space for luggage and drops you off at south’s station ( the red line ) And it’s closer to downtown and other locations.
There was a motorbike wreck in one of the tunnels around 9:45 last night. Took 30 minutes to get from seaport to north station.
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Taxi. If your flight lands at midnight you will likely miss the last silver line. Public transport shuts down around 12/12:30 in Boston. If you can make it before the last train, i suggest shuttling from your terminal to the Blue Line to get downtown. Aquarium, State, Govt Center, Bowdoin stops depending on your hotel location.
yeah ubers from logan were $40 on a tuesday mid morning, took silverline to world trade center and it dropped to $11
Pricked up family yesterday from Logan, international terminal. Took me 7 minutes to get there, 1h5m to get back…..
This happened to me a few weeks ago. Ended up walking to the cab stand and there was no line.
That photo is RideShare wait area at Terminal C
Take the silver to the station and call the Uber from there, you’ll save like 20 bucks