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Welcome to the MBTA Transit site. It is a site about the MBTA or Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority. At the present time this site is in beta. Phase 1 is finished but since this is a beta pages and material can be changed or added. Since this site is in beta I am asking those who log on to please report any issues or problems. Please list the browser and version (like Internet Explorer 6.0 or Firefox 3.0). I will be posting known issues as well on this page both reported and discovered by me. Your help is appreciated. Check below for known issues and their dates. Some may be fixed while others may not. We know there are some incosistancies with Firefox 3 that is in beta as well as Apple's Safari 3.0 also in beta for Windows. Those issues have or are being resolved presently with the updated and additional pages being added to the site.

Right now this site is still part of the upperMidwestCycling site but will shortly have its own url and website.

Presently all photographs are by the webmaster from a visit to Boston during October, 2007 and September/October, 2008. In late September, 2008 the webmaster returned to Boston to work on the 2nd phase of the project covering the south half of the Red Line, the Orange Line, the Blue Line including the new 0700 cars, and Green Line. Included in this phase are pictures of the T's trackless trolley buses as well as more picutres of the Purple Line and buses including the newest Flyer DL-40 low floor buses. A third phase may be added in 2009 to include the core Green Line subway and other areas not covered.

Feedback is important from those visiting this site so that the webmaster can take into consideration the direction planned. At this point what was just going to be a picture album has already grown into much, much more. Comments and contributions from MBTA employees would be appreciated. Please click on the link to the webmaster with comments or more details concerning specific needs for this site.

Thanks are again offered to Peter Swan, Manager of Special Projects in Marketing and Christine Selados in Marketing at the MBTA. Also a special thanks to Lynn Matis, Chief Librarian and Archivist of the magnificent State Transportation Library of Massachusetts located in the building where MBTA has their headquarters. I have little doubt that when this project reaches completion (do websites ever reach that point!) there will be more names added in the credits. Those who wish to contribute material and/or pictures should first contact the webmaster by clicking on the link below for particulars.

Some of these pictures may be added on the MBTA. Those pictures will remain copyrighted and are for download purposes only. They may not be reproduced and/or altered on any other website be it free or commercial without the express permission of the webmaster.

This site is dedicated to the over 6,600 employees who are part of the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority and the great job they do to serve the public and make it happen.

With that in mind click below to enter the first phase in beta of the MBTA Transit site.

FireFox: version 3.0 tends to mislocate some of the text fields. Hopefully the final release will have that fixed.

The Firefox issue is being taken care of with the new pages and a different layout technique.

This site is being created on a wide screen. If there are problems with "bleeding" (where text runs into pictures, etc.) please let me know the particulars. Again, always mention your operating system, browser and where the problem was seen.

Possible issues with the right scroll bar being covered by graphics on home page using a 1280x800 screen on a lap top with XP and IE7. Looking into this 03/19/08 10:00AM

Added more links on various pages and cleaned up bleeding where found. 16 May 08

Rosters added to Blue, Red and Green Lines from Wikipedia. Minor touching up on Red and Green Line. 18 June 2008.

The new revised Red Line and Blue Line is finished but has not been added to the site. Those wishing to preview may email the webmaster. Otherwise the entire revised site will be uploaded with the additions and modifications some time during early 2009. All of the original pictures will be redone in some cases using features from PhotoShop CS4. 27 December 2008

Unless otherwise noted all pictures are by Larry Mack and are copyrighted. These pictures may not be used for other web sites and/or commercial purposes without the express approval by the webmaster. The "T" and subway map are copyrighted and owned by the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority and are used on this site with their approval. This site is not officially affiliated with the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority.