by Miles Taylor | Mar 10, 2020 | Miles on the MBTA
Thanks for releasing your service changes during midterm season, MBTA! They put these out two Saturdays ago (they go into effect March 15th) and I’m only just getting to them now. And because we’re not in Better Bus season anymore, I get the feeling this...
by Miles Taylor | Feb 26, 2020 | Miles on SEPTA
The K really is an odd duck in the SEPTA canon. Forming almost an upside-down U, this route is a crosstown across North Philadelphia that completely overshoots the Broad Street Line, running through some of the northernmost reaches of the city. Despite that, it...
by Miles Taylor | Feb 20, 2020 | Miles on the MBTA
The 16 interlines straight into the 15, so I wasn’t able to get a proper shot of the bus! Shoot. I had to get creative. We headed out from the ITC onto the highway-like Center Street, passing some suburban businesses before turning onto Housatonic Street, whose...
by Miles Taylor | Feb 19, 2020 | Miles on SEPTA
I reported this to SEPTA, so it isn’t an issue anymore, but the station page for the Girard Broad Street Line station showed a map of the Girard Market Frankford Line station! See, this is why you don’t give your stations the same name, because stuff like...
by Miles Taylor | Feb 14, 2020 | Miles on the MBTA
Yikes, Crane Ave is the main street on the 16, and it offers pretty much nothing transit-oriented aside from one apartment complex. That’s the breaks when you’re running a system as rural as the BRTA, I guess… Minibus time! The initial section on...
