Bicycling and the MBTA

The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority operates subway, bus, commuter rail, and ferry service in the Greater Boston region.

"[2] Full-sized bicycles were temporarily prohibited on weekend and Halloween Newburyport/Rockport Line trains in October 2024, due to high passenger volumes to Salem.

[5] A small number of MBTA stations have "Pedal and Park" cages, which allow for more secure bicycle storage than normal open racks.

[7] The first two Pedal and Park cages were installed at Alewife in September 2008 to serve commuter bikers from the busy Minuteman Bikeway, followed shortly after by one at Forest Hills.

[9] In 2011, the MBTA received a federal grant to add more cages, for which local advocacy group MassBike was brought in as a design consultant.

[13] Blue Bikes, a municipal bikesharing service in Boston, Cambridge, Somerville, and Brookline, does not have docking stations on MBTA property and no official attempt is made to connect the two systems.

The Minuteman serves as a major commuter trunkline, with hundreds of riders per day using it to reach the Red Line.