# MBTA Boston Full Route Catalog

> MBTA Boston Full Route Catalog is a paid API for AI agents from clonecho.builda.company, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns the complete MBTA route catalog for Boston, including subway, bus, commuter rail, and ferry routes with long names, descriptions, colors, and direction destinations.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://clonecho.builda.company/x402/s/mbta-boston-routes
- Price: $0.02/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/mbta-boston-full-route-catalog-f70b3232
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_288crtDt6cHSyEexPKP9E

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability mbta-boston-full-route-catalog-f70b3232 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up the full list of MBTA routes in Boston — I want to see all the subway, bus, commuter rail, and ferry lines with their names, colors, and direction endpoints?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a comprehensive, structured catalog of all MBTA Boston transit routes across all modes (subway, bus, commuter rail, ferry) in a single call, especially when you need route metadata like colors, long names, and direction destinations for display or navigation purposes.

## Known failure modes

- Service unavailable or upstream MBTA API outage — returns 5xx error
- Payment not provided or invalid — returns 402 Payment Required
- Malformed request — returns 400 Bad Request
- No routes returned if MBTA data feed is temporarily empty

## How this service works

Boston (MBTA) full route catalog — subway, bus, commuter rail and ferry with long name, description, color and direction destinations. Param q reserved. Query: ?q= Returns JSON.

## Output

A JSON array of all MBTA routes, each including route ID, long name, description, color code, route type (subway/bus/commuter rail/ferry), and direction destination labels (e.g. 'Alewife' and 'Braintree' for the Red Line).

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/mbta-boston-full-route-catalog-f70b3232/health.json
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