35 years arround boston and never rode the subway...

[CAL]

That's funny 'cuz I've been there about 20-25 years ago when I was in college

You have to look at the front car on the train when it comes in, that will tell you where it's going. Alewife is the last stop on all northbound Redline trains I think. If that lady put you on a train to Arlington station then you were on the green line. That's the most confusing of all the T lines.

Getting to Park St. will get you anywhere you wanna go, you just have to be able to read the maps.

Going out and back into the station is definately gonna cost you. Every station I've been at you can you can turn around and go back to the other side of the tracks and head back where you came from without going through a turnstile.

[Raider Ronnie]

I take the train maybe 1 time every 2-3 years
Worst thing about the train is the smell !!! especially when they go underground!!!

[RickBomba]

I'll tell you guys one thing, as a transplant from WMass via New York, the Cape and Jersey, I got here in '96 and wouldn't ride the T until I figured it out.
Now that I have, can't believe that thee's a bus that picks me up in front of my house in Waltham and brings me right to freakin Fenway, or to those many Bugaboo meetings downtown, and all I have to do is make the right interchanges, and it puts me back home...no drinking and driving ever!!!
I love the T, but it really took me 5 years to figure it out.
Sorry TFF, always follow the redline outbound and you're gonna get close to home.
Remember that Park is the place to get it downtown, if you're on any line, Park is readilly accessible to the Green, Blue and Orange.
Also, take it from a boy who grew up in Holyoke, MA.
Stay off the orange line unless you got the brass knuckles!
Later,
Rick