MsTerra
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| [MA] Free Coffee in Boston 5/13
For my fellow city-folk, I just got notice of this from an MIT email list:
On the morning of Wednesday, May 13, an estimated 20,000 T riders will be rewarded for their environmentally-friendly decision to use public transportation. Volunteers from TransFair USA, the non-profit that certifies Fair Trade Certified™ products in the United States, will distribute free coupons to be redeemed for hot or iced Fair Trade Certified™ Green Mountain Coffee® at Bruegger's Bakery-Cafés, plus a coupon worth $2.50 off a package of Green Mountain Coffee at local grocery stores.
Commuters can find the volunteers from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. at seven T stations including: South Station, Kenmore, Porter Square, Longwood, Downtown Crossing, Government Center and Back Bay. Here's a link for backup....
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Sarah
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clubs: | I will be passing through South Station tomorrow, I'll have to see if I can snag a coupon...
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Dominokat
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MMMmmmmm
Coffee! |
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Sweet Witch
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Gallifrey | reply to MsTerra
Damn! I hate coffee! Too bad they didn't include iced or hot tea in that deal. |
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MsTerra
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I must confess that I normally walk to Davis in the morning, so I did not avail myself of the free coffee. I wish someone near here were giving some away now. I could do with a caffeine jack-up...
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Sweet Witch
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| MsTerra  , I just looked at the Davis station online and have a question - the tracks turn into the bikepath after alewife, are they still being used as tracks from Alewife inbound? I don't remember seeing them above ground the few times I've been in that area recently.
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MsTerra
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| I think the bikepath (rail trail) is built over a different set of tracks. The red line is all underground between the terminus at Alewife and where it comes above ground after Kendall to go over the Longfellow Bridge. Charles/MGH is an above-ground stop, and then it goes underground again until (IIRC) JFK.
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Sweet Witch
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| I was looking at this map - »www.mbta.com/schedules_and_maps/···1.122527. If you expand it you can see where the tracks end at Alewife and become the bike path.
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MsTerra
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| I think I see what you mean, but the tracks you're referring to aren't T tracks. I believe they're a disused rail line, some of which has been paved over and turned into a rail trail. I've ridden the bike trail from the Cedar Street end in Somerville all the way out to the Bedford end and back quite a few times, and I can say with some confidence that the T tracks don't become the bike trail at Alewife. In fact, the segment of the bike path between Mass. Ave. and Alewife just kind of dumps you off in the plaza outside the station, and you have to figure out to ride through, ride up route 3 for a short way, and then pick up the trail again where it heads into Arlington. I wish it were as straightforward as it appears on that map.
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Dominokat
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I wish we had some good coffee joints.
I have to travel 35 miles for Starbucks. Or 20 for Dunkin Donuts....
Where I used to work, we sold Green Mountain coffee. It sold very well. I often brought some "bags" home for myself.  |
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MsTerra
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| Well, you make some tradeoffs up there, don't you? If I had a choice, I'd take unspoiled woods and coastlines over Starbucks every other block any day. Boston's still a good coffee town, though, even since the assimilation of the Coffee Connection.
Green Mountain coffee is good stuff - much better than anything from Starbucks. Dunkie's coffee really isn't what it used to be.
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capecoddah
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WOW... 20 miles, 4 Drunkin' Donuts, 1 Honey Dew and at least 15 other places for a cuppa-joe-to-go (not counting gas stations). In the summer, that's a 2 hour drive.
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Shipload O' Joe |
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Dominokat
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Must
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Coffeeeeeee |
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