by Miles Taylor | Oct 15, 2015 | Miles on the MBTA
Okay, I’ll start off by saying this: Sullivan Square is admittedly better than Community College. I mean, they’re quite similar aesthetically. They both have center platforms, they’re both under the elevated I-93 structure, and they both...
by Miles Taylor | Oct 12, 2015 | Miles on the MBTA
Whenever I return to Boston, I like to come back with a bang. So, who’s up for a Commuter Rail station on its last legs? Chelsea Station has always been a bit of an outcast, a lone Commuter Rail station where there ought to be proper transit. That’s...
by Miles Taylor | Oct 12, 2015 | Miles on the MBTA
You’ll remember how on the way to Costa da Caparica, we used the ferry-bus combo, which was pretty long. I will say, however, that that way is useful if you’re coming from downtown Lisbon. However, if you’re staying further north (like we were), your...
by Miles Taylor | Oct 11, 2015 | Miles on the MBTA
Okay, so it turns out there’s a faster bus from Cacilhas to Costa da Caparica, but we ended up on the slow one. That made things more interesting, though, since we got to see a bunch of local neighborhoods. Of course, maps on the TST website are pretty much...
by Miles Taylor | Oct 10, 2015 | Miles on the MBTA
When we got back to Lisbon, we only had one full day left in Portugal, with one thing we wanted to do: go to the beach. Now, Cascais is the city’s main touristy beach, but we found out that the water there can get so polluted that you can’t even swim in...
