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You can take an MBTA train to both Worcester and Providence from Boston. The MBTA is also the authority that manages the subway system, the bus routes and other services in eastern Massachusetts. Not just Boston.

Anyone ever confuse Newark with NYC? How about Jersey City? And yes, Silicon Valley does not stretch from Sausalito to Berkeley through Oakland and SoMa down to San Jose, either. Especially when you're pushing mindless bragging rights.

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Close. The MBTA owns the commuter rail but does not operate it. It is outsourced to the Mass Bay Commuter Rail Company.MBTA provides the ticketing but does not operate the trains. http://www.mbcr.net/

You can also take the Fung Wa from Chinatown to Chinatown for $20 but that will not keep them from being separate entities.

I'm living in Cambridge and it seems like pretty standard fare for people to consider it part of Boston. The T isn't just like other trains, its the intra-Boston trains.

Anywhere you can get to by taking the subway in NYC is part of NYC, that doesn't include Metro North or Amtrak. Similarly the T in Boston wouldn't include the commuter rail or whatever. I understand that they have separate governments, but they are directly touching; you can walk from Kendall across the bridge in 10 minutes. The government is irrelevant for this article, it's clearly talking about the geographical area.

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