List of MBTA bus routes

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The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority bus division operates the following bus routes, in the U.S., many of which are descendants of streetcar routes of the Boston Elevated Railway or a suburban company.

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[edit] Special routes

The Silver Line (internally 746 and 749) is a bus rapid transit system marketed as rapid transit.

The crosstown (CT) buses provide limited-stop service with free transfers to subways.

Some bus lines are contracted to private operators and may be unnumbered and may use different vehicles than the rest of the MBTA fleet.[1]

[edit] 1-202

These routes all serve the immediate Boston area, and most were inherited from the Metropolitan Transit Authority. They are numbered roughly clockwise from southeast to northeast, with 4 the furthest north in South Boston (1 was a combination of the 47 and 76 in 1962) and 121 the furthest south (roughly) in East Boston. Numbers from 131 to 137 are former Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway routes in the Melrose area. 170 and 171 are special low-service routes, the 170 a variant of the 70 and the 171 a replacement for early morning CT3 service (when it was cut back from Logan Airport). Routes from 191 to 197 are single round trips in the early morning, mainly meant for subway fare collectors but open to the public. 201 and 202 were redesignations of the two directions of the 20 loop in March 2005.

[edit] 210-299

These routes operate in the Quincy area. They were originally operated by the Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway.

[edit] 300-349

These routes operate express between Medford and downtown Boston.

  • 325
  • 326

[edit] 350-399

These routes operate in the Burlington area.

  • 350
  • 351
  • 352
  • 354
  • 355

[edit] 400-499

These routes operate in the Lynn area.

  • 411
  • 424
  • 424W
  • 426
  • 426W
  • 428
  • 429
  • 430
  • 431
  • 434
  • 435
  • 436
  • 439
  • 441
  • 441W
  • 442
  • 442W
  • 448
  • 449
  • 450
  • 450W
  • 451
  • 455
  • 455W
  • 456
  • 459
  • 465
  • 468

[edit] 500-599

These routes operate express between Newton and downtown Boston.

  • 500
  • 501
  • 502
  • 503
  • 504
  • 505
  • 553
  • 554
  • 556
  • 558

[edit] Timeline

This is only a timeline of Boston-area buses, usually with numbers below 200 (though 201 and 202 have been used twice each for routes in this district).


[edit] External links and references

Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (official site)
Red Line Alewife – Ashmont / Braintree ––– Ashmont-Mattapan High Speed Line: Ashmont – Mattapan
Green Line Lechmere – Boston College ("B") / Cleveland Circle ("C") / Riverside ("D") / Heath Street ("E") ––– Watertown ("A")
Orange Line Oak Grove – Forest Hills ––– Charlestown Elevated – Atlantic Avenue Elevated – Washington Street Elevated
Blue Line Wonderland – Bowdoin
Silver Line Dudley Square – Downtown Crossing; South Station – various points
Buses List - Crosstown Buses - Former Streetcars - Trackless Trolleys - Key Routes - East Boston Area - South Boston - Urban Ring
Commuter Rail Greenbush – Plymouth/Kingston – Middleborough/Lakeville – New Bedford/Fall River – Fairmount – Providence/Stoughton – Franklin – Needham – Framingham/Worcester – Fitchburg – Lowell – Haverhill/Reading – Newburyport/Rockport - North-South Rail Link
Miscellaneous Accessibility – Boat service – CharlieCard – Nomenclature
Predecessors Boston Elevated Railway – Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway – Middlesex and Boston Street Railway
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