Downtown Crossing — Local services in Boston

We missed the first train by 5 seconds because we had to wait for our fat friend to catch up to us. Then we sat 10 minutes because the next train was delayed due to a maintenance problem, during which time some kids passed us popping wheelie's at the edge of the platform on their bikes, and a homeless man came to each of us individually asking for money.

When the train finally arrived, it blasted its horn right next to us, causing permanent hearing damage to at least two of my friends. I'd say ~1/3 of the train's paint was rusted off. Every car was packed, so we got in the nearest car to us and tried our luck.

The train chime was out of tune, the car smelled like weed and you couldn't understand a word the driver said. There were no automatic announcements so you just had to do your best to listen to the gibberish the driver was speaking in. Of course, just doing that was difficult as a group of girls yelled at each other from across the car for most of the journey. When they finally left, the homeless man from before boarded our car and asked for more money, during which we opened the train car door and threw him under the train.

Upon arriving in Forest Hill, a man exiting the train behind us punched an elevator with all the might he had left in his sad body.

We were supposed to get home at ~8-9PM. We got home at midnight.

Overall a pleasant experience, however I am taking away 1 star for a lack of...

Downtown Crossing is definitely one of those MBTA stations you should avoid. The signage made me exit by accident while trying to get to the Ashmont/Braintree bound platform on the Red Line which made me have to use my round trip ticket to get back in. Not only that but the Forest Hills bound platform on the Orange Line is horrible and people are almost always smoking down there. The hall ways made me feel really uncomfortable because there were some really strange people hanging down by there, they didn't give me trouble thankfully but even then I still got...

Its not that the station has a bad design. The walk way to park st station has fenced up constrution sigts that are old and just left there. One of the orange line entrance get super packed because the lack of ticket gates. Getting to the red line from park st. To down town crossing undeground tunnel is rlly old and its so packed thers pepple waiting on the red line plat form to get in. On the orange line plat form theree is always someone swearing at you. From the street entrance you have to walk a long tunn to the station butboverall thevatation is...