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...would probably just [have walked], but it was really cold that night,” wrote Francis, who was able to wait at the usual #39 bus stop on Centre Street for one of the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority’s (MBTA) “Night Owl” buses. Since 2001, the fleet of buses has ferried late-night travelers—every weekend on the half hour until 2:30 a.m.—along routes approximating the four subway lines, as well as on seven popular daytime bus routes...
...March the MBTA, citing a budget shortfall, pulled funding from several of its services—among them the $1 million-a-year service. That means that mass transit in Boston, even on the weekends, is once again shuttered by 1 a.m.—an hour before many bars close, amd at a time earlier than any other major U.S. transit agency...
According to the MBTA, operating the Night Owl was, financially, a losing proposition—even more so than normal bus and subway services, both of which hemorrhage large amounts of money each year...
...cannot justify an expensive service like that when we have regular bus routes that are overcrowded and crying out for more service,” said MBTA spokesman Joe Pesaturo...
According to the MBTA, alternative ways of providing late-night service—such as running subways into the early morning—remain unfeasible...