BOSTON – Starting this Saturday, February 1^st, the Back Bay Logan Express (LEX) will have new drop off and pick up locations. The Back Bay LEX buses are scheduled for every 20 minutes daily. The new starting point for the bus route is in front of the Dartmouth St. entrance to Copley Place and the Prudential Center at 800 Boylston Street. Service from Copley Place runs from 5am-9pm. Trips from Logan Airport run from 6am-10pm every day.

As of May 1st, a ride from Boston’s Back Bay to Logan Airport costs $3, and passengers from Logan to the Back Bay ride FREE. Back Bay LEX riders will also go to the head of the security checkpoint line when they arrive at the airport.

LEX is the seventh largest transit system in Massachusetts with Back Bay and four suburban locations in Braintree, Framingham, Woburn, and Peabody. Since 2009, LEX annual ridership has increased by almost 70% to 1.8 million. Massport’s long-term goal is to double ridership to 4 million. By next year, new LEX service will be available for commuters at North Station with connections to the MBTA’s Green and Orange lines, and the Commuter Rail. The fare will be $3 to Logan Airport and FREE on the return. Other LEX locations are also being considered.

For more information on the various ways how to get to and from Logan, please go to

www.massport.com/logan-airport/to-from-logan/

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The Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) owns and operates Boston Logan International Airport, public terminals in the Port of Boston, Hanscom Field, and Worcester Regional Airport. Massport is a financially self-sustaining public authority whose premier transportation facilities generate more than $22 billion annually, and enhance and enable economic growth and vitality in New England. For more information, please visit massport.com.

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