by Miles Taylor | Dec 17, 2017 | Miles on the MBTA
What’s the best way of getting to South Station for a 5:30 AM train to Providence? How about walking to Clarendon Hill for the early-morning 89/93 trip that only departs at 4:33 AM? Sounds good to me! The Clarendon Hill busway is weird at this time… It was...
by Miles Taylor | Dec 16, 2017 | Miles on the MBTA
What the heck is the 21, MVRTA? Deviations, weird headways, and PVTA Syndrome…oh my! Oh, and it goes to a senior center. Even better! We left the North Andover Mall onto Winthrop Ave, but we soon turned onto Waverly Road, the first cross street we came across....
by Miles Taylor | Dec 15, 2017 | Miles on the MBTA
Whenever my train gets into Lawrence, I always check the 33 schedule to see if there’s a bus coming to the station to take me to Lawrence. So far, I haven’t been lucky, being forced to do the rather long walk to the Buckley Transportation Center. Still,...
by Miles Taylor | Dec 14, 2017 | Miles on the MBTA
Welcome to the busiest route on the MVRTA! This bad boy takes a direct shot from Lawrence to Haverhill, via Methuen…in which it has to make a bunch of deviations. Okay, the shot is mostly direct. The bus at the Washington Square Transit Station. We went...
by Miles Taylor | Dec 12, 2017 | Miles on the MBTA
Located right in downtown Haverhill, the Washington Square Transit Station is the hub for all of the MVRTA’s routes in the city. But here’s the million-dollar question: is it nice like the Costello Transportation Center, or disgusting like the Buckley...
