Let's take for example mbta.com. This site has a nice little trip planning tool, and I was wondering if it would be reasonable to try and make it to an after work social knit. It's been ages since I've been to a social knitting event at a shop (I didn't really knit at the guild meeting, though I certainly could have).
There is a yarn shop in Dedham that I haven't been too called Sheep Skate. I know I can get down to Dedham on the Orange Line and that the nearest Orange Line stop for me is Downtown Crossing. I plug Downtown Crossing Station as my starting destination and the shop address as the end. Easy peasy. I choose minimize walking (and believe me, it didn't make a difference, because I did it both ways) and I get this:
These instructions are at best kind of dumb. They say Walk from DTX (where you started) to Park Street Station, take the Red Line one stop, transfer to the Orange Line, and then take a bus from the appropriate Orange Line stop.
I changed this around a couple of times, and the only thing it changes is whether they want me to walk to a different stop. It's like Downtown Crossing is a null zone and you are just not allowed to start from there.
It's probably not necessary to say, but I don't tend to do things after work. It's just so much easier to schedule something on the weekends even if I am usually chronically overscheduled.
I need to call around to a couple of LYS and see if any of them have the Classic Elite booklet 9092 for sale. That has the Portland Tweed Vest that I would like to make. It will only take me about one more week to finish the cross-stitch project now that I have the floss (which like all variegateds does not look that much like the last ones I bought), and then I will be able to do the finishing work on a baby set and start a new knit for the train. I'd like it to be this one, because the vest will be perfect for a couple of the white button down shirts I have for work.