<p>I’m hoping to win an argument with a Crimsonite…</p>
<p>Sure, he agreed that Brandeis is wonderful, but he said it takes
about 45 minutes to get into Boston, and I countered that
I thought it took half that time… </p>
<p>Is the BranVan schedule on the website – does anyone
know the transit time? Can I win this argument?</p>
<p>Many thanks,</p>
<p>Ottoline</p>
<p>According to the MBTA, even during rush hour, the commuter rail from Brandeis to North Station (via Porter Square, Cambridge) is 30 minutes. This of course does not include time waiting for the train.</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure I won the bet, but the names of the stops leave me baffled.
It seems like a pretty short trip into Boston. True?</p>
<p>Ottoline</p>
<p>Thanks, Chedva -- I accidentally missed your answer.
30 minutes is just enough time to read a chapter or two
on the way in...</p>
<p>Ottoline</p>
<p>if you had a car and were to drive directly from Brandeis to Boston it would take about 15-20 minutes. But, since most people take the train or the free bus in, it takes longer. The train takes a little less than 30 minutes I think, and the bus, because it goes to Cambridge first then Boston, takes 45. (It stops in Harvard Square after 30 minutes then continues on to downtown Boston).</p>
<p>Bus is 15 minutes to Harvard Square unless you take the 5PM bus on a Friday. Then you're just stupid. Any other time it's 15 minutes or less. 20 minutes to Porter Square by commuter rail. </p>
<p>The bus drops you off in a relatively inconvenient place in Boston (at least for where I want to go) so I always go to Harvard Square unless I want to go to the Boston Public Library.</p>
<p>All in all, it takes me MAX 45 minutes to get from Brandeis to the end of the green line in Jamaica Plain unless A) there's a Red Sox game, B) it's snowing, or C) public transportation ceases to exist.</p>
<p>Nobody takes the commuter rail unless you're going to the airport (and even then, most people seem to take cabs or the airporter) so the bus is the generally most used way. There's also an MBTA bus which stops right in front of campus, but I've never heard of anyone using it.</p>