In 1995, the island of Montserrat experienced a catastrophic disaster that rendered its capitol city, Plymouth, uninhabitable. On July 18th of that year, the Soufrière Hills volcano went kaboom, spewing volcanic fallout around the island, and the volcano has been active since. This all has rendered about half of the island of Montserrat uninhabitable.
…wait, what? I’m talking about the wrong Montserrat? Ah fuck. Whelp, Chelsea did the wrong type of research. What is the right Montserrat, anyways?
*looks at pictures and notes*
OH, there’s a neighborhood in Beverly called Montserrat with a T station! Okay! Whoopsies, sorry about the snafu. Here’s Montserrat, the T station. Sorry, everyone!
Anyways, Montserrat is sandwiched between two grade crossings, at Essex St. and Spring St. Essex St. is the more busy of the two streets, with me having to risk my life crossing it. Yikes. There’s plenty of parking to go around here as well, and it being a Saturday meant an empty parking lot. The mini-highs are unsheltered, the inbound platform has a rinky-dinky little shelter, while the outbound has jack shit. There’s benches and wastebaskets though! There’s also a couple of red dot matrix signage. In terms of the area, there’s not much around, as it’s almost fully residential. Oh yeah, there IS a bus connection – the Beverly Local Bus. Stay tuned for that one!
Before I left, however, I decided to pick up lunch at Nick’s Pizza. Fries were crunchy and salty, and the pizza was pretty good, all things considered. Overall, I give it a passing grade.
The good: It’s in a residential neighborhood! Relatively easy to walk to, at that. There’s also a local bus connection.
The bad: EVERYTHING ELSE. THE STATION ITSELF SUCKS, THE MINI-HIGHS ARE BARREN, THERE’S BARELY ANY SHELTER, AND NOTHING IN WALKING DISTANCE – WAHT THE ACTUAL HELL!!! AND THE BEVERLY LOCAL BUS IS A MESS OF A ROUTE TOO!!!
Nearby points of interest: Just a small plaza with Nick’s Pizza and a convenience store…
Transit connections:
Commuter Rail (Rockport)
Beverly Local Bus
Overall, no. Just, god no. Please no.
Rating: 3/10
