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A very Silver Line sunset

By adamg on Mon, 08/12/2024 - 10:44pm
Sunset as seen from inside a Silver Line bus

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Ari Ofsevit reports he had to sit on on the luggage rack in a very crowded Silver Line bus this afternoon but at least he got a good view of the sunset over the Tobin Bridge.

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Tobin Bridge


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Comments

By Don't Panic on Tue, 08/13/2024 - 1:02am.

There's something on the other side of the Tobin? I've got to get out of the City more.

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By CB on Tue, 08/13/2024 - 6:09am.

Which silver line goes over the Tobin?

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By adamg on Tue, 08/13/2024 - 8:46am.

If you look closely out the window of the bus, though, you can see the Tobin.

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By Rwgfy on Tue, 08/13/2024 - 9:36am.

If you sit on a crowded bus, you are crowd.

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By Scratchie on Tue, 08/13/2024 - 11:10am.

Who's a clever boy?

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By SwirlyGrrl on Tue, 08/13/2024 - 12:09pm.

One more bus, bro.

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By Ari O on Tue, 08/13/2024 - 11:33am.

Some of us are old enough to remember when it was called the Mystic River Bridge. Only relative newcomers call it the "Tobin Bridge"! (It was named after Tobin in 1967.)

Some of you n00bs probably call the Cottage Farm Bridge the "BU Bridge" (renamed 1949).

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By Ron Newman on Tue, 08/13/2024 - 2:52pm.

 

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By Swander on Thu, 08/15/2024 - 1:23pm.

…right next to the Charles Street Jail, of course.

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By ElizaLeila on Tue, 08/13/2024 - 3:28pm.

I was born here in MA after the renaming (not much after, but still).

Guess I'm a relative newcomer, lol.

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By cybah on Tue, 08/13/2024 - 5:56pm.

But we've met.. I also know you aren't a MA native.

I'm also pushing 50 and I never called any of these by those names. You'd have to be over 75 (for "Mystic River Bridge") or over 57 (for Cottage Farm Bridge) to call them that.

We ain't that old.

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By Ari O on Sun, 09/08/2024 - 10:45pm.

News to me!

Several years ago I went in for something at The Brigham and they said "have you ever been a patient here?"

I said "no, uh, wait, I was born here" and they looked me up by my SSN and said "so we can update your file from "baby [mother's maiden name]."

Speaking of which my mom (born in Lynn, grew up in Marblehead once they started letting Jews in … sort of) would call it the Mystic River Bridge, and then tell stories about taking the Sumner into the city as a kid when it was a single lane in each direction.

You're welcome!

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