The MBTA closed four stops along the B Line – the busiest branch of the Green Line – Tuesday under a program to cut travel times, and Boston University students are hoping the closings will make for quicker commutes.

Amal Benaissa, a College of General Studies sophomore, said the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority needs to improve reliability, and cutting some stops may be the right answer.

“The schedule is always unpredictable with the T on campus. This is especially frustrating during the winter,” she said. “I’m also glad that they are trying it out before deciding.”

With the Stop Elimination Pilot program, MBTA officials are aiming to reduce trip times by having trolleys bypass the Greycliff Road, Mt. Hood, Summit Avenue and Fordham Road stops during a six-to-eight month trial period. The four stops were chosen because they had the least commuters and were closest to neighboring stops.

College of Arts and Sciences sophomore Whitney Reuling said closing stops is a good idea that should be expanded.

“I absolutely think things will be faster. In fact, they should close more stops,” she said. “The T is too slow, and the frequency of trains is all off. Sometimes I wait 20 minutes and other times there are three in a row.”

While Reuling said she mainly uses the T to travel from the Harvard Avenue stop to the BU East stop, she occasionally has to go further and said it can be nightmare.

Living in an infamously cold and wet city, Boston students rely on the T to get to class dry and on time, and recently students have said that hasn’t been the case.

“There are too many stops, too many people and not enough trains to get anywhere from this area,” Reuling said.

Matthew Weiss, a CGS sophomore, said he is surprised at how long it has taken the MBTA to respond to commuters’ needs and that there are obvious problems with having only one door open on inbound trains.

“Finally they realized how frustrating it is to wait in long lines to enter into a train that is already too full at the front,” he said. “Plus, people never listen when the driver tells them to ‘step all the way into the train.’ The sheer ignorance of it is absurd.”

Jessica Dirienzo, a CGS sophomore, said the T’s inadequacy is worst in bad weather.

“I hate how when you see it coming in the distance,” she said. “It stops five times before it gets to our stop. It’s the worst when I’m waiting in the rain. It is really inefficient.”

Martin Hojny, a CGS freshman, said the Fordham Road stop should not have been eliminated because many BU students use the stop. He offered an alternative.

“Eliminating stops on a college campus is wrong,” he said. “People who live on Fordham have so long to walk. I think they should make express trains instead of canceling stops.”