by Miles Taylor | May 4, 2018 | Miles on the MBTA
Ready for a super-short trip on the 3? This is gonna be a quickie! Sweet, a Proterra!!! We cruised down Foster Street making those awesome Proterra all-electric noises, and we soon came into downtown Worcester. Once we crossed Main Street, the road became Maple Street...
by Miles Taylor | May 3, 2018 | Miles on the MBTA
Your MBTA commute is about to get a lot more exciting. For the past few months, I’ve been interning for a group of MIT graduate students who have produced an incredible app: Alight. Instead of wasting your money on overly-expensive tour buses, you can now ride...
by Miles Taylor | May 1, 2018 | Miles on the MBTA
Heyyyy, why does the WRTA website URL still reference the former 34? That’s no good! That was a Sunday-only variant of the 24/24A, but luckily it’s been eliminated, so we only have to deal with the 24 now. …or, in this case, the 24A! We began at the...
by Miles Taylor | Apr 30, 2018 | Miles on the MBTA
WRTA has an annoying policy where passengers can’t “ride around” at the end of a route. This makes doing isolated routes like the 5 tough. Sam and I’s solution was to get off a little bit before the end and just wait on the other side of the...
by Miles Taylor | Apr 29, 2018 | Miles on the MBTA
RTAs often end their routes at malls, but Showcase Cinemas is a new one! Unfortunately, Sam and I weren’t able to catch the 14 from its true start point, so we began at its second stop, the Porter and Chester Institute. On weekdays, buses deviate directly into...
