MBTA Wollaston Station

It’s time for the MBTA to get serious about this station. Years of promises and official looking renovation proposals posted on their website have staved off criticism but this needs to change. The elderly, infirm, families with children and strollers, are unable to get off the platform without great difficulty. With not other way to exit the station except down a steep staircase, the station is inaccessible for many people. Recently a family purchased a home close by and relocated from Cambridge assuming that one of them could take the T to work and drop off the kids at daycare. After spending a week asking strangers to help carry the stroller down from the platform (something passengers obligingly do for each other all day), the parent decided to purchase a second car and commute to work !! People are avoiding relocating to this area because of the inaccessible station despite city planners trying to advertise Wollaston as a commuter location. it is not and will not be until something is done to allow people who have difficulty managing a steep stairway from using the facility.

Why isn’t the Wollaston station wheelchair accessible. That’s against the law I believe.

I feel a little ridiculous reviewing a train station, but here we go.
3 stars. I feel that’s adequate. Wolly T isn’t going to collapse on you and break your spine, but it’s also not gonna go out of it’s way to ease your journey. This place is the most mediocre, unchanged station on the T. I bet they had to drag them kicking and screaming into the 21^st Century when they installed the Charlie Card machines downstairs.
Lately there’s a guy playing a trumpet on the platform I’d give this place a one-​star review strictly because of him, but he looks like he’s gonna die off in the Winter so we won’t have to deal with him anymore. Get rid of that dude.
Bonus:
If I had to give a review of a review of the Wolly T, I’d give Robert H.‘s review a 4. He put in some serious effort and uploaded about 300 pictures of the place. That’s more work than the Herald does half the time. But I’ll knock a star off his review because he was way too critical of Wolly T. Dude makes it sound like Baghdad.

Wollaston red line station is at such a convenient location. It is very clean and devoid of any miscreants even late at night. Most people feel very safe and secure with enough transit police action during odd hours. Much needed these days with things we hear on the news. The charlie self service touch screens are always functioning. There is always a T agent around to help you out.
One of the great things about Wolly station is that when I am on my way to or from Boston for work, it is so easy to get off at Wollaston and have easy access to everything I need that does not require my car to be around. Some of the conveniences are as follows:
— A 24 hour CVS pharmacy just across the street
— Great choices for morning coffee (Coffee Break right next to the CVS)
— Plenty of fantastic asian and irish joints a few steps away on Hancock St. And no hassle of driving for those late night parties with friends
— A couple of really good grocery stores again a few steps away on Hancock St (Hanafords and a couple of really good Asian grocery stores too)
— A great liquor store again across from the T station (Wollaston Wines)
— lots of parking spots with a great price of $ 5 a day. I’ve done that many a times and even though I don’t have a weekly parking pass, I do get a spot any time I go impromptu.
One of the many benefits of living in good ol Quincy!

By far the safest T stop in Quincy. North Quincy is not bad, but Quincy Center is very sketchy. Proceed with alertness & caution.

Horrible. Insulting. Only one staircase to which everyone must funnel. When the afternoon tsunami of folks is coming down the stairs, forget about going up. Stuck back in 1971, tasteless Soviet style concrete. Never updated. Lobby floods. No elevator; one constantly sees women with baby carriages in a tough situation. Violates the ADA in addition to being shameful. The single escalator constantly breaks down. Kiosk for parking attendants is shamefully tiny. I know they will say that the parking is a private enterprise but it is on T property and the attendants deserve to work in more square feet than the equivalent of standing in a 55 gallon drum.
The T ought to knock off the mentality of expanding their HO model train set and concentrate on improving the quality of the core lines. Extensions to Fall River and New Bedford are an expensive joke. Such a thing would require buying out the Post office next to South Station to restore tracks given up years ago, but that aside, few will ride it. Meanwhile, Andrew is an open urinal, South Station under leaks through the light fixtures, the Green Line packs folks on like livestock heading to the slaughter.
The Red Line could run with much more frequency, I have witnessed trains no more than 4 minutes apart, so buy more rolling stock.

There’s nothing really special about this train station. Only 1 bus connection. I prefer this T-​stop than N. Quincy & Quincy Center which are always packed.
$ 5 parking. Big lot and there’s always a space.
Across the street there’s a 24 hour CVS, I always head over there when the MBTA gives me a migraine.