Open your beer. If you don’t have one, buy one. Why? Late-Night MBTA service starts tonight, Friday, March 28.

[Update: 4:05 p.m.] In an email, MBTA spokesman Joe Pesaturo tells BostInno that T General Manager Beverly Scott and COO Sean McCarthy will be at Park Station for the beginning of late-night service from 1:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.m. Saturday morning.

Tonight is Bostonians’ first night to use the T service they’ve been crying out for. That means, if anyone stumbles out of a bar tonight right into the backseat of some cushy, odd-smelling $28 dollar cab back to Brighton, well shit, no one is going to have any sympathy for you, because you could’ve taken the T. If this service is going to stick around, people need to use it – that’s literally the most self-explanatory thing in the world. So you don’t end up blowing it for everyone else, here’s what you need to know about late-night T service …

 

The late-night subway schedule:

Learn this. Memorize this. Print it out and fold it up, put it in your pocket so you can have it with you at all times. Just remember that late-night service is only happening on Fridays and Saturdays. Also, the MBTA has said in the past that this service will last until 3 a.m. However, the latest departing train is scheduled to leave at 2:45 a.m.

 

What about the buses?

Late-night service will take effect tonight on Red, Green, Blue, Orange and Silver Lines, and on the T’s 15 key bus routes:

  • Route 1, Harvard Square – Dudley Station
  • Route 15, Fields Corner – Ruggles Station
  • Route 22, Ashmont – Ruggles Station via Talbot Ave.
  • Route 23, Ashmont – Ruggles Station via Washington St.s
  • Route 28, Mattapan – Ruggles Station
  • Route 32, Cleary Square – Forest Hills Station
  • Route 39, Forest Hills – Back Bay Station
  • Route 57, Watertown Yard – Kenmore Station
  • Route 66, Harvard Square – Dudley Station via Brookline
  • Route 71, Watertown Square – Harvard Station
  • Route 73, Waverley Square – Harvard Station
  • Route 77, Arlington Heights – Harvard Station
  • Route 111, Woodlawn – Haymarket Station
  • Route 116, Wonderland – Maverick Station via Revere
  • Route 117, Wonderland – Maverick Station via Beach

Those buses will run until 3 a.m, Friday and Saturday.

 

How will Government Center’s closure impact things?

Frankly it won’t, really. Shuttle buses are already in service from Haymarket to Government Center, and the T has said these will operate until 3 a.m. during late-night service. Shuttles will make stops at State Street, Government Center, and Bowdoin stations, before returning to Haymarket.

 

So we can just rage late into the night, correct?

False. The MBTA Transit Police are stressing safety and will be out and about making sure everyone is acting within the realm of good taste.

 

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