MBTA Boston

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Boston MBTA real-time transit — next subway, commuter rail, bus, and ferry departures at any station (with schedule fallback), routes, stops, and live service alerts from the official v3 API.

4 tools
0ms auth
free tier 50 calls/day

Tools

mbta_departures

Real-time MBTA train arrival and departure predictions at a Boston station — answers "when is the next train Boston", next Red Line subway at South Station, Green Line trolley, commuter rail departure

No parameters required.

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mbta_routes

List MBTA routes for the Boston subway T, commuter rail, bus, and ferry — route ids, names, and the destination each direction heads toward. type: 0-1 subway/light rail (Red, Orange, Blue, Green, Matt

No parameters required.

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mbta_stops

List the stops and stations on an MBTA route — Boston subway T lines, commuter rail lines, bus routes, ferries. Returns stop id, name, municipality, and wheelchair accessibility, in route order. Examp

No parameters required.

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mbta_alerts

Active MBTA service alerts — Boston subway T delays, commuter rail disruptions, shuttle replacements, track changes, detours, elevator outages. Filter by route to check one line, e.g. is the Red Line

No parameters required.

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Test with curl

The gateway speaks JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP POST. You can test any pack directly from the terminal.

List available tools
bash 
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/mbta/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'
Call a tool
bash 
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/mbta/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"mbta_departures","arguments":{}}}'

Use with the SDK

Install @pipeworx/sdk to call tools from any TypeScript/Node project.

TypeScript 
import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const px = new Pipeworx();
const result = await px.call("mbta_departures", {});
ask_pipeworx 
// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("boston mbta real-time transit — next subway, commuter rail, bus, and ferry departures at any station (with schedule fallback), routes, stops, and live service alerts from the official v3 api");