Quickest public transport to Harvard Square?

<p>Dear BU students:</p>

<p>When you want to shop or otherwise visit the Harvard Square area, is there an efficient bus route or do you take the T to Park and switch to the red line? Does walking over the BU bridge to Cambridge get you anywhere near a T stop?</p>

<p>Whenever I go, we take the Green Line to Park Street and then switch to the Red Line and take that to Harvard Square. It is really easy, and it only takes about 15 or 20 minutes.</p>

<p>yeah, taking the green line to Park Street and transfering to the red line is easiest.</p>

<p>or if u feel adventurous, the walk from BU Bridge to harvard is about 2 miles.</p>

<p>i've never taken boston's public buses.. so i don't know if there's a convenient bus route to harvard.</p>

<p>There are busses you can take, but I don't take the bus to Cambridge often, so I can't tell you which one.</p>

<p>Taking the BU bridge into Cambridge brings you to the Hyatt and not very close to Harvard Square.</p>

<p>Taking the Mass Ave bridge into Cambridge brings you to Kendall Square, which may or may not be worth going to, but it's still a small hike from Harvard Square.</p>

<p>Taking the T to Park really is the most efficient way.</p>

<p>I stayed at the Hyatt in Cambridge, and it was quite a walk over the bridge to BU. It's definitely more feasible to walk to MIT from BU.</p>

<p>Did you walk the Mass Ave or BU bridge? I've stayed in the Hyatt before and I'm pretty sure that it was only a 10 minute walk to the Charles River campus using the BU bridge.</p>

<p>Thanks a lot. I took my daughter to HQ via the T when we visited; but I felt like we were back tracking into Park St. with BU just across the River from Cambridge. But then, that's not the part of Cambridge we were intending to visit.</p>

<p>I'm not sure which bridge it was...don't know the names, just that I walked along the river going west from the Hyatt, then left across the bridge. It was probably about 20 minutes' walk but seemed longer. And to edit the previous post--- what I meant to say was that it was easier to walk to MIT from BU than to walk to Harvard Square from BU.</p>

<p>Just as an FYI, I know that the 47 goes across from BU Central (by the GSU) to Central Square, and I think it might continue on to Harvard Square. I live in Allston (a few T stops on the Green Line away from BU) and take the 66 right on over to Harvard Square.</p>

<p>As noted, most people take the T because it's all one system. Over the BU Bridge on the Cambridge side, you are a hike from the Red Line in Central Square - you are in Cambridgeport, which has no real public transportation at all. You can take the bus, but it requires switching systems - for example, the 66 bus crosses Comm Ave in Allston on Harvard Ave and thus intersects the Green Line B train. You can take the B outbound and pick up the bus or vice versa. The 66 dumps you in the center of the Square.</p>

<p>I can't think of many reasons to go shopping in Harvard Square. To a particular restaurant maybe but shopping? Back Bay, Allston, Brookline, that's where you go.</p>