by Miles Taylor | Feb 9, 2018 | Miles on the MBTA
Hey, the LRTA is a thing! Yeah, I’ve made the least progress with LRTA, so it’s time to change that. Here’s the suburban 12 route from Wilmington to Lowell! Good to be on this system again! We headed out from the Wilmington Commuter Rail...
by Miles Taylor | Feb 8, 2018 | Miles on the MBTA
Oh man, I always get so excited when I do a GATRA review! How many deviations will we make? How few people will use the route? Well, the Medway T Shuttle makes no deviations…and gets lots of people. Huh. The minibus: a bright haven in the middle of the...
by Miles Taylor | Feb 7, 2018 | Miles on the MBTA
This is the mother of Commuter Rail microstations: one train in the morning and one train in the evening. Plimptonville is a tiny stop in the middle of nowhere within Walpole, and it gets the lowest ridership on the entire system. Could this be the worst station on...
by Miles Taylor | Feb 6, 2018 | Miles on the MBTA
The Franklin Line deviates to serve a housing development? WHAT IS THIS WORLD COMING TO??? Okay, okay, it’s not a deviation, it’s right there on the line. And Windsor Gardens Station actually gets great ridership considering what it’s serving....
by Miles Taylor | Feb 5, 2018 | Miles on the MBTA
It’s the Saturday before Halloween. We’re riding a bus route around a college campus in the late evening. Oh boy, this should be fun… Thanks for being slow! Hot of the heels of our Evening Van trip, Jaret, Nathan, and I needed to get back to...