Maverick MBTA Station – Blue Line

As far as stations on the blue line go, Maverick Station is aggressively mediocre. I’ve recently been spending more time in East Boston (unfortunate, I know), which means that part of my commute involves the always lovely Maverick Station.
The people who crowd the trains to and from work apparently don’t know about any car but the first one, so it’s like trying to part the seas getting off a completely packed car while the rest are deserted. They also are unaware of how to use the escalator, one side is for standing, the other is for those of us that would like to get to our destination at a slightly quicker pace than a snail. But despite the people, the station is kind of clean, doesn’t smell overly horrible, and is actually kind of warm in the winter, which is a perk.

I don’t mind the station. I mind the people that can’t figure out that common curiosity/​common sense means that you sand on the RIGHT and walk on the LEFT when on the escalator. I’ve missed trains because of the escalator getting jammed up on the bottom.
The station is pretty clean and supervised during rush hour.
Buses for the ¹¹⁶⁄₁₁₇ often pull up to the 120 spot but overall the organization of the buses and traffic around there is very good

The train runs every 10 min during rush hour and twice an hour every other time of the day.
On weekends good luck getting off the land locked Peninsula.
They should just build some sort of underground pedestrian walk way… would be much more efficient.

Just the people who get on at this station they cram the doors and for some reason only think there is 1 car on the train

I want to hate this station, but I really can’t. I mean, it definitely has its problems, but it is much better than it used to be, and still looks nicer than most stations. For instance, when I try to enter the station, I can’t help but notice how nice the new doors are. I have time to notice the doors, as I can’t actually walk through them, they are locked from the inside. There are 8 doors into the station, but only two, chosen at random, seem to be accessible from the outside at any moment.
As I stroll down the smooth, easy incline of of the brand-​new floors, there may be a guy laying unconscious and bloody in front of the gates, but I can hardly blame the station for that. Just because someone chose that location to fall face-​first onto the floor doesn’t mean I should fault the T for not making that floor out of fluffy pillows and clouds.
If some ass wants to walk up directly behind me and try to sneak through the gate so I have to «accidentally» elbow him in the gut just before he gets through, do I blame Maverick Station for that? Or do I blame the T in general for putting in gates so easy to bypass and not having enough employees to stop it from happening?
When I’m watching the awesome light-​up sign that tracks the location of all the trains, and the train I need to get to work on time stops at Airport for fifteen minutes, then changes direction, leaving me to cram on the next train along with a thousand other people, should I get mad at Maverick Station? Or should I at least be glad to know the station has that sign, so I know that I am justified in my anger at the T, for its poor infrastructure and the fact that the brand new Blue Line trains break down just as often as the old, rusty ones did?
Is it Maverick Station’s fault that no one can have a conversation here without dropping more f-​bombs than regular words? Of course not. None of these things should be blamed on the station. It looks a lot nicer than it used to look, it’s accessible, relatively clean, everything you could want from a T station. Does that mean it deserves 5 stars? No. Because whoever is to blame, the fact is that any trip here is going to be an unpleasant one.

I’ve been really impressed with Maverick Station after having been around town to other stops on the T. Since the renovations were completed in the past couple monthes, it is looking pretty nice. There are a decent number of parking spots available here, as well as ample bike racks. Living at jeffries point, its really easy to find a parking spot here at night right outside the station doors and jump on the T to head downtown or elsewhere. The station is never overly crowded, and is generally kept very clean.