by Miles Taylor | Mar 30, 2018 | Miles on the MBTA
Nantasket Junction. Old Colony. Let’s go. This is about all you need to see. It’s a single track, so it’s just one platform. There are benches along the whole thing, but there’s a higher concentration of them (plus wastebaskets) under the...
by Miles Taylor | Mar 29, 2018 | Miles on the MBTA
Time for a gauntlet-style review of all of RIPTA’s URI services! Spoilers: they’re not too useful. Shh…it’s trying to camouflage with the trees! A well-timed 66 from the 210 took Sam and I up to Fairgrounds Road. We got off here and walked down...
by Miles Taylor | Mar 28, 2018 | Miles on the MBTA
More Flex action! The 210 serves the URI campus, as well as some of the immediate surroundings, which presumably hold some off-campus student housing. Since our 62 would arrive a little later than the last timepoint stop on the route, though, Sam and I would have to...
by Miles Taylor | Mar 27, 2018 | Miles on the MBTA
Another one from Mike N. – thanks, Mike! Ashland, Ashland, Ashland. The one interesting thing about this station is that it exists. Yep, this will be a boring one. Well, the first thing I saw at Ashland was a warning for high speed trains. But that doesn’t make...
by Miles Taylor | Mar 27, 2018 | Miles on the MBTA
What do you think is the most cruddy station on the B Line? That’s an easy one. There’s no doubt about it, it’s Chestnut Hill Ave. The outbound platform is so narrow that you can’t stand on it without being on the yellow line! Yeah…the B Line is fun. Get...
