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Question about the line "There are two major rail stations in Boston: North Station and South Station. There is a third station in Back Bay and a fourth on Rte. 128." Back Bay station is in Boston but Route 128 is not (I think it's in Westwood). Boston has other railroad stations as well. Don't know what the author's intent was... but could use clarifying.
Has Amtrak begun stopping at North Station since 2000? I don't remember it doing so, but that may well be merely because I always took trains from New York, and trains terminate at South Station (which is closer to NY that N. Sta. is, obviously, unless the stations were named by the same person who decided a thoroughfare that makes a complete circuit should be called "Tremont Street" throughout). --Charles A. L. 19:25, Feb 17, 2004 (UTC)
- Amtrak trains from New York still terminate at South Station. North Station is the terminal for Amtrak trains from Maine. I don't know when these started running, but I thought it was before 2000. --AJD 05:42, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)
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- Well, never let it be said I don't admit it when I'm wrong. --Charles A. L. 18:58, Feb 18, 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Roads POV
The "Roads" section has contained the following text, or something like it, for quite some time:
- Roads change names and lose and add lanes seemingly at random, and many drivers are flummoxed by rotaries. Legally, cars already in a rotary have the right of way; that's not the way it always works in reality.
Is there any way to make this bit more NPOV? I mean, "seemingly at random"? Seemingly to whom? And so on. AJD 20:25, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Maybe something like this:
- Not all the agencies that maintain road in the Boston area follow Federal standards (specifically the MUTCD) for signage and striping; lanes sometimes disappear from one side of an intersection to the other. In rotaries, the law gives right-of-way to drivers already inside the rotary, but drivers often ignore that. Additionally, street names sometimes change or make turns at intersections, more so than in most U.S. cities.
