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Opened: Mar 13, 2024 at 9:17 PM
Description: ecently, I noticed that Roslindale Square is, despite being a major neighborhood center inside the city of Boston, classified as Zone 1. This means that passengers trying to go between other parts of Boston, usually Forest Hills, have to pay over $6 each way or suffer through traffic on a slow bus. Other parts of Boston, which have similar amounts of low-income residents, have much more equitable transit. Dorchester, for example, gives passengers the choice between riding a bus (some of which are free, thanks in no small part to you) or paying just $2.40 for a commuter rail ticket. Meanwhile, Roslindale, which has been considered a candidate for an orange line extension, has seen no such improvement in its transit equity. Because of this, ridership on the Needham line suffers (it has no zone 1a stations that aren't also orange or red line stations), and many residents are forced to sit through bus traffic or simply choose to drive. Other commuter rail stations similar distances from North/South station are considered zone 1a stations, such as Chelsea, Boston Landing, and Fairmount, so it would make sense to have Roslindale be considered the same. | Case (SR) Type: [ONS Coordinator Issues] Referred To: [ONS: ROSLINDALE]

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