by Miles Taylor | Aug 20, 2020 | Miles on the MBTA
Okay, this is a doozy of a service change. Thanks to our good pal COVID, there are some huge changes happening in the fall, namely some massive reconfiguring of resources. Routes that used to get packed are now nearly empty, while others have seen barely any drop from...
by Miles Taylor | Aug 16, 2020 | Miles on SEPTA
Wow, have we got a beast today. The 57 is an absolutely massive route, going from the northern border of Philadelphia (and indeed, slightly over it) to almost the southern border! But in typical Miles in Transit fashion, I wasn’t content with picking just any...
by Miles Taylor | Jul 24, 2020 | Miles on the MBTA
It’s a little bit less exciting to do a GATRA route when it’s one of the numbered Attleboro-Taunton ones – I mean, these ones feel like, you know, actual real legitimate bus routes. At least, as close to an actual real legitimate bus route as you can...
by Miles Taylor | Jul 14, 2020 | Miles on SEPTA
Our last SEPTA review was on the 64, a route that runs crosstown along a wide, close-to-the-city road in South Philadelphia and runs more infrequently than it should. The 43 is the northern version of that! Oh wait, let’s review the 50th-Parkside Loop first. The...
by Miles Taylor | Jun 14, 2020 | Miles on the MBTA
Oh boy, there’s nothing better to take me out of a hiatus than the T releasing its quarterly service changes! I’ve actually begun my internship with them for the summer, so I can’t promise that post frequency will be as high as it was during that...