Government Center MBTA Station

Transportation nerds will appreciate an early morning visit. It’s clean, modern, and federally compliant.

I’m glad the station is open again and making my commute to revere shorter. However I’m not happy that the Boston college train does not go to government center, because the mbta feel it would cause congestion. So that means I still got to take any train to park street to catch the Boston college train home.

What an absolute inconvenience on so many levels for those riding the T. How can an entire station be closed for so long? How did they not look & find better alternatives? Once again, the T makes decisions that affect thousands & thousands of people per day & they raise the fares as if this should be the norm. The difficulties of going from red to blue are still an issue, when will it ever change. What a joke.

Good bye Government Center MBTA Station. (As of March 22, 2014, this station is going on a long vacation.)
Enjoy your two year hiatus. Your closure is an annoyance, especially for that well-​used Blue Line connection to the airport.
(Yes, I will be glad to see that elevator you are putting in, as it is badly needed.)
Let’s hope that your cosmetic updates include a good scrubbing, a new ventilation system, better signage and more turnstiles. Let’s hope that you apply some sort of industrial grease to the tracks so that the torturous screeching sounds are somewhat diminished. Let’s hope your updates influence the rest of the immediate area by the entrance which seems cold and barren all year long. Let’s hope your overhaul cheers up the people working here, and they figure out that smiling is easy and being helpful is not too difficult, either.
See ya. I’m not expecting a postcard, but I do look forward to your return.

One of the most accessible T stops around in Boston. It drops you in the heart of the city! City Hall Plaza, Faneuil Hall, Quincy Market and local bars and shops are steps away! Yeah there’s only a few turnstiles, and people think it’s crappy, but it works. We can’t all sit on gold thrones when we ride the T. Accept it for what it is — an accessible T station in the middle of the city.

For an indoor T station, the Government Center stop is A-​OK. The only complaint I have is that there are far too few turnstiles and Charlie Card kiosks for such a busy station. Otherwise, it’s not too shabby.

I love writing Unilocal reviews for things that nobody will ever, ever read. Hmmmm should I get off this tee stop? Let me check how many stars it has on Unilocal,2? NOPE.
This was my T stop for a number of years and a fun fact for you, when Boston has bad weather, it worse in Government Center some how. By far the most screeching sounds in any one indoor place ever.
Not one star just because like the horrible late night food spot you go to after the bar, after you graduate and move away from Boston everything seems much better when you remember it.

I have many drunken memories of Government Center from when I was in Boston going to Northeastern. Somehow, it’s gotten more confusing since then. And when I changed trains here this time, I was sober. How did that happen?
Getting from the Blue Line (between Bowdoin and State) to the Green Line (between Haymarket and Park Street) requires a lot of concentration. But once you get it done, you’re there.
I remember a Dunkin Donuts. I remember an awful busker. And I remember waiting a while for the right Green Line train to come along and when it did, people crowded into it. Good luck there.

Great location, but the station is filthy. It’s scheduled for re-​hab this year & will be closing for awhile.

It’s a subway station and it’s old. But it has a Dunkin Donuts and its warm inside during the chilly winters. Sometimes they have live music performers to entertain you while waiting for a late Green Line train.

Not bad for a T station. They hand out free samples in the Govn’t Center area from time to time. Its pretty warm in the winter and summer though. Which can be a good/​bad thing from time to time. Other than that, its a standard MBTA station

This can be a confusing station when you’re new to the city and it’s a very busy one also. There are little shops and almost all the trains come through here.

With rush hour trains running every 7 – 12 min apart in every line and 3 out of 4 trains making government center its final destination, trains should be turning around and going outbound at a rate if one every 3 – 4 minutes. SHOULD being the important word. Additionally a d line train should be coming out every 7 – 12 minutes. It never happens this way. Change the mbta acronym to MBPL, for Making Business People Late.
As the longest running subway system in the US, the mbta should be a well oiled machine… should…

I don’t like it; it goes nowhere, and too often the trains are stopped here and unboarded or emptied prematurely. Best to go through it rather than stop here UNLESS you really WANT to stop here. Far too often the trains stop here.
A recent development is sending D-​line trains through here (when were T-​riders TOLD that the D-​Line would route through here?
Oh, the platforms are often noisy and crowded with rude riders; but hey, it’s human life.

It’s a hot mess over here. If you’re confused, you won’t be soon. Just don’t hover at the doors if you’re not getting on or off the particular train that’s there, k thanks.
You go down, to the left is towards North Station/​Lechmere, then you look straight where masses of people are just chillin out and wait for your line to come. Pay attention though, don’t stand in the way like the people. well you’ll see them.
Sometimes the T lets you off here because it’s going to loop back around and pick people up and go back the other way, so they drop you and you have to wait for a NS train, oh well. pay attention to that if you’re going this direction.
Often there are promotions going on and samples being given out, which is fun because who doesn’t like free stuff?
The elevator is small, stand to the right… or take the stairs. or if you’re slow don’t take the stairs and block the other people who want to get the heck out of there’s way.
Then you go downstairs again and there’s the blue line, a bit messy but oh how I miss traveling on the blue line (for one reason being a certain person I visited).
They have the dunks and sometimes there’s some music going on by a performer, actually almost all the time that I’ve been here over the years.

Dunno… the station seems OK to me. Maybe my expectations aren’t high enough but all I want is to take catch the train. I don’t really need or expect a clean train station — it’s a TRAIN station people, you gotta expect a little urine right? I actually appreciate the dinginess of it.
Lately, it has even improved — they added a Kabloom stand (sells flowers). The vendor selling hats and t shirts is always a welcome site, and the Dunkin Donuts is nice to see (but I wouldn’t get coffee from there and hope the person who works in that stand for hrs a day is getting a very large premium). Many times there is an entertainer while waiting for the train (music, singing, etc.). During the season, on Monday’s and Wednesday’s, there is a famer’s market outside. It’s a fine station, but it should have handicap access in addition to the escalator.
My complaint is that the C line does not come very often. I usually see B, B, B, E, B, D, E, B, D, and then maybe a C. I want more C.

This was my station. As in, this was the closest next door station to the hotel where I was staying so I used this station quite a bit to get around. I liked that it is only one station from Park where you can transfer to the Red lines and the Blue and Green lines go through here. It was so convenient to get here on any Green line at all times since I knew it would stop at Gov Center.
I though for a subway stop it was decently clean and easy to use. The gates are not broken and the elevator /​stairs were convenient for entry and exit.

On a recent adventure with one of the kids I am a nanny for, we found out the hard way that there is no elevator here. WTF MBTA haven’t you heard of the Americans with Disabilities Act?
So I hoisted the baby out of his stroller and carried him, his stroller, diaper bag, and various other baby accoutrements down the stairs. He could have gone down the stairs semi-​independently, but the thought of him touching anything made me want to vomit.
Judging by funky odor alone, Im pretty sure someone is selling pee flavored cotton candy and paying the mbta to waft the scent around with huge, oddly placed fans.
Tip: get off at park st, its a 3 min walk up the road from gov’t center.

I guess almost all T stations are not worth anymore than 2 – 3 stars, but this is getting a 2 although… nope. m changing it to 1.
I hate switching to the blue line here as the green line platform is always clogged and its impossible to get through all of the idiots trying to get on a train that clearly says is out of service. The green line pulls up way to far and lets people out on the platform where there is about a foot of space between the car and a wall. No need.
The blue line section of govt center is ok, while its always packed to the brim and one of the escalators is always broken, you can easily bypass this by taking one of then next 7 bowdoin bound trains to bowdoin, and crossing over and getting a seat before it fills up at govt center.

This is probably the most «hub-​like» of the Green line stops not named Park St. It is also kind of a mess. Is this because of the fact that Government Center is the closest stop to Fanieul Hall? Most likely. It’s a mess of people moving in and out, crowding up the small station while waiting for some Green Line train back to Riverside or whatever stop they came in on.
Yes, there’s a DD in here, but honestly, there’s also one just outside too, and another one just around the corner (and a Starbucks too). Is there really that much of a need for one in the station? I mean, at least Harvard Square has the space for one and the lack of one in the immediate vicinity (and the fact that you don’t have to use your card to go to Harvard’s is a plus too).
There is no redeeming factor to this station. It’s small, muggy, and annoying. Unless you need the Blue Line, it would behoove you to walk over to Park Street a few blocks away. At least there it’s not as insane («as» being the operative word)