The first phase of the MBTA’s Better Bus Project will go into effect on Sunday, with major changes to several bus routes in the hopes of getting passengers where they want to go more quickly, eliminating underutilized routes, and connecting to more transit lines, including a new stop at Logan Airport.
MBTA officials say the new bus network will provide 25% more service — including weekend and evening trips — improve service reliability, double the number of frequent routes that run every 15 minutes or less every day, and introduce new connections in East Boston, Chelsea, Everett, Revere, Malden, Somerville, Cambridge and Allston.
“They put a lot of time into this, and hopefully it goes smoothly after time and it delivers on the things that they’re promising, right? Better service, more efficiency and more frequency,” said Pete Wilson, senior policy director of the statewide coalition Transportation For Massachusetts…