by Miles Taylor | Nov 17, 2019 | Miles on SEPTA, Miles on the MBTA
So you can take Greyhound from Philly to the Hampton Roads area for a little over 30 bucks one-way? And you can do overnight buses each way so you don’t have to spend the night anywhere? And one itinerary involves a five-and-a-half hour layover in Richmond,...
by Miles Taylor | Nov 13, 2019 | Miles on SEPTA
I rode the 46 on a weekday and loved it. Hopefully the weekend frequency won’t drag it down in the end… Coming into the stop at 58th-Baltimore. The 46 is a really short, simple crosstown that runs pretty much straight up 60th Street in West Philadelphia....
by Miles Taylor | Nov 7, 2019 | Miles on SEPTA
The things I do for this blog. Seems like the economical choice to...
by Miles Taylor | Nov 6, 2019 | Miles on SEPTA
SEPTA. Why do you have an El train and an L bus? This is very confusing! If it’s any consolation, they don’t go anywhere near each other, but the amount of times I’ve gotten double takes when talking about the L bus has gotten to insane levels!...
by Miles Taylor | Nov 4, 2019 | Miles on SEPTA, Miles on the MBTA
Click here for Part 1, click here for Part 2. Our final part of the Scotland series takes us to the northern tip of Great Britain…and beyond. But we first begin in Inverness, the largest city in the Highlands (with slightly under 47,000 residents) and one with a...
by Miles Taylor | Oct 27, 2019 | Miles on SEPTA
Welcome to SEPTA’s least-used route. The 150 looks absolutely bizarre at first glance: it’s a nonstop suburban crosstown express from Parx Casino (in the northeast) to Plymouth Meeting Mall (in the northwest). I was all set to write this thing off as a...