by Miles Taylor | Aug 5, 2017 | Miles on the MBTA
I had the perfect plan to get back to UMass from Hartford! Everything timed perfectly – Peter Pan from Hartford to Springfield, the P21E to Holyoke, the B48 to Northampton, and the B43 back to Amherst. Plus, it worked out that there were 25 grace minutes for the...
by Miles Taylor | Aug 4, 2017 | Miles on the MBTA
Anyone familiar with the area must have known this was coming. Yes, of course, how could I have ridden the G5 without taking advantage of its connection at MassMutual: the CTtransit 905, express to Hartford? Time to visit the Insurance Capital of the World!...
by Miles Taylor | Aug 3, 2017 | Miles on the MBTA
A guest post from Phillip Byrne about North Quincy. Thanks, Phillip! Continuing south on the Braintree Branch of the Red Line, North Quincy is about 2 minutes to Wollaston. Going north it’s eight minutes to JFK/UMASS, the longest distance between 2 stops in the subway...
by Miles Taylor | Aug 1, 2017 | Miles on the MBTA
How can any bus route be scheduled this incompetently? How can any bus route be scheduled this incompetently? Unless the PVTA has figured out how to slow down and speed up time, the G5 defies any sort of logic. The bus at Union Station. From Union Station, we...
by Miles Taylor | Aug 1, 2017 | Miles on the MBTA
Wow, this route taught me about the existence of so many new neighborhoods and towns! Williamsburg! Haydenville! Leeds! All that and more on the R42! This is about it for Williamsburg Center… Sam and I just took the route out and back in, but I’ll be...
