by Miles Taylor | Dec 3, 2019 | Miles on the MBTA
Why is my last ever Commuter Rail station review of Holbrook/Randolph, a station that’s less than 15 miles from Boston, gets served by every single Middleborough/Lakeville Line train, and has connections to two, count ’em, two local bus routes? The world...
by Miles Taylor | Nov 26, 2019 | Miles on the MBTA
Despite reviewing the BRTA’s hub at Pittsfield first, my friend and I didn’t actually start our day there. Instead we parked at Fairgrounds Plaza, the first stop of the 21, which we took toward Pittsfield at the beginning of the day. If you’re...
by Miles Taylor | Nov 22, 2019 | Miles on the MBTA
There’s no post tonight…on this blog. But check out the collab I did with Ari “Amateur Planner” Ofsevit over on his blog – we review Boston Magazine’s “40 ideas to save transportation in Boston”! Each one gets a score...
by Miles Taylor | Nov 21, 2019 | Miles on the MBTA
Well, now that we’ve finished the FRTA, there’s nowhere else to go but west. It’s time to tackle the BRTA, the westernmost RTA in the state, covering a big vertical rectangle of land spanning from Williamstown to Great Barrington. But before we can...
by Miles Taylor | Nov 17, 2019 | Miles on SEPTA, Miles on the MBTA
So you can take Greyhound from Philly to the Hampton Roads area for a little over 30 bucks one-way? And you can do overnight buses each way so you don’t have to spend the night anywhere? And one itinerary involves a five-and-a-half hour layover in Richmond,...
by Miles Taylor | Nov 10, 2019 | Miles on the MBTA
Why does the 22 have a colored name? Does that make it important? Because it only runs four trips a day. It doesn’t serve Greenfield. It almost entirely duplicates other routes. No, doesn’t seem important to me. The bus approaching at Turners Falls. We...
