by Miles Taylor | Jun 21, 2017 | Miles on the MBTA
It’s odd that my first Logan Airport Shuttle review happens to cover the craziest and most obscure route on the system! The 77 “provided [sic] employee bus service between Logan Airport and the Chelsea Garage,” and it runs incredibly frequently...
by Miles Taylor | Jun 16, 2017 | Miles on the MBTA
Surprise! How’s about a video review on this lovely Thursday evening? A walk from Pembroke to Halifax after taking GATRA’s shuttle turned a bit crazy…
by Miles Taylor | Jun 14, 2017 | Miles on the MBTA
Hey, it’s an Old Colony station that actually has something noteworthy about it! It’s just too bad that one noteworthy thing is also terrible…but we’ll get to that. Here’s Halifax! Coming into the station. It starts out pretty boring,...
by Miles Taylor | Jun 12, 2017 | Miles on the MBTA
One of the strangest things about the GATRA is that it’s composed of many different “systems” that don’t really connect and have nothing to do with each other. Some of the most isolated of those systems are the rush hour-only commuter shuttles:...
by Miles Taylor | Jun 9, 2017 | Miles on the MBTA
Why on earth would I come to Hanson, you ask? Could it be to ride the rush-hour only GATRA shuttle from there to Pembroke, you ask? Why, yes, that was exactly why I came to Hanson! Before I can review that exciting GATRA shuttle, though, I have to...
by Miles Taylor | Jun 6, 2017 | Miles on the MBTA
Most of RIPTA’s routes are of pretty normal length…but then there are the long ones that go miles and miles into the Rhode Island hinterlands. The least-used of those long routes (not including rush hour expresses) is the 14, which runs along the west...