Boston Recommendations:
Public Transportation in the Longwood Medical Area (LMA)
LMA Map #1
LMA Map #2
LMA Map #3
Zipcar
Zipcar is a neighborhood rent-a-car service.
They place cars all over the Boston area that you can reserve and rent on an hourly basis.
If you're
affiliated with Harvard,
you can join Zipcar for only $20 a year.
This is a much better deal than you can get on your own ($75/year, $300 deposit).
Zipcar has placed two cars in the LMA: one at
Longwood/Riverway
and one at
Simmons College.
Bicycle
Cycling around Boston can be dicey.
Drivers in Boston in general are not overly cognizant of cyclists, nor are there many designated bike lanes.
Thus cyclists must be cautious.
For information in bicycling in Boston, see
MassBike's page.
Also, here's a link to the City of Boston's
public position on bicycling.
Subway
- The closest subway stops are:
- Longwood (Green D-Line)
- Longwood/Hospitals (Green E-Line) or Brigham Circle (Green E-line)
- Roxbury Crossing (Orange Line)
In Boston, the subway is called the "T," and signs for the subway feature the letter T.
Here is a July 13, 2003 article about
crime on the T
from the
Boston Globe.
Here is an
informative graphic
that accompanied this article.
Buses
- along Longwood Avenue
- 8
- 47
- along Huntington Avenue
- 39
- 65
- 66
- More...
- (There are more buses that pass by or pass through the LMA, but I am too lazy to put up links to all of them.)
Shuttle Buses
- MASCO
- Shuttle bus list
- Bus stop is located opposite of Vanderbilt Hall on Avenue Louis Pasteur, near its intersection with Longwood Ave.
- Partners (Brigham & Women's and MGH)
- Shuttle bus list
- Bus stop is located opposite the Brigham on Francis Street, at its intersection with Binney Street.
From the LMA, how to get to:
- Notes:
- 1. Shuttle buses usually do not run on weekends or holidays.
- 2. If Green Line is specified, you can take either the D-Line or the E-line.
- 3. If direction is unspecified for the subway, then the direction is inbound.
- Harvard Square
- MASCO Shuttle: M2
- Subway: Green Line to Red Line (Harvard Square)
- Central Square
- MASCO Shuttle: M2
- Bus: 47
- Subway: Green Line to Red Line (Central Square)
- M.I.T.
- MASCO Shuttle: M2
- Partners Shuttle: Brigham-M.I.T.
- Subway: Green Line to Red Line (Central Square)
- Charles Street/Massachusetts General Hospital aka Mass General aka MGH
- Partners Shuttle: Brigham-MGH
- Subway: Green Line to Red Line (Charles/MGH)
- Faneuil Hall/Quincy Marketplace
- Subway: Green D-Line or Green E-Line (Government Center or Haymarket)
- North End
- Subway: Green D-Line or Green E-Line (Haymarket)
- Downtown Crossing
- Subway: Green D-Line or Green E-Line (Park Street)
- Subway: Green D-Line or Green E-Line to Red Line (Downtown Crossing)
- Prudential Center/Copley Place
- Partners Shuttle: Brigham-Prudential-MGH
- Subway: Green D-Line (Hynes Convention Center or Copley)
- Subway: Green E-Line (Prudential or Copley)
- Cambridgeside Galleria
- Subway: Green D-Line or Green E-Line (Lechmere)
- Coolidge Corner
- MASCO Shuttle: M2, at certain times
- Walk northwest on Longwood Ave., it's not far (15 minutes)
- Green D-Line to Green C-Line
- Bus: 66
- Brookline High School
- Green D-Line (Brookline Hills)
- Walk west on Rte. 9 (20 minutes)
- Washington Square
- Bus: 65
- Green D-Line (Beaconsfield) (then a short walk)
- Green D-line to Green C-line (Washington Square)
- Logan International Airport
- Subway: Green Line to Blue-line (Airport) to one of two airport shuttles (#22 or #33, depending on which airline)
- Jamaica Plain aka JP
- Bus: 39
- Subway: Green Line E line outbound
- Ruggles Station
- MASCO Shuttle: Ruggles Express
- Bus: 47
- Bus: 8
- North Station
- Subway: Green Line to North Station
- South Station
- Subway: Green Line to Red-Line southbound, i.e., towards Ashmont or Braintree (South Station)
- Kenmore Square
- Subway: Green D-Line (Kenmore Square)
- Bus: 8
- Walk, it's not far (12 minutes)
- Various shuttle buses will take you to nearby Fenway