by Miles Taylor | Apr 18, 2017 | Miles on the MBTA
This station sucks. Being stuck here for 4 and a half hours sucks. Sure, there was a nice reward in the end, as the title’s parenthetical remark suggests, but…this station still sucks. Wow, that’s a lot of railfans! Alright, let’s start with...
by Miles Taylor | Apr 14, 2017 | Miles on the MBTA
Poor ol’ Gardner is a really isolated city for transit, and there’s no easy way of getting from there to Boston…well, until Wachusett Station opened, that is! And sure, that station still uses the “drive and park” mindset that all modern...
by Miles Taylor | Apr 12, 2017 | Miles on the MBTA
“ITC” stands for “Intermodal Transit Center,” right? I mean, what the heck else could it stand for? The “MART ITC Gardner” has to be the central bus hub for all of the system’s Gardner routes! That’s gotta be it, right?...
by Miles Taylor | Apr 11, 2017 | Miles on the MBTA
Alright, everyone, raise your hands if you’ve ever heard of Winchendon, Massachusetts! Anyone? Anyone? Yeah, neither had I until I rode this strange little shuttle. Who the heck thought that a link from Gardner to Winchendon would actually get a few people? The...
by Miles Taylor | Apr 8, 2017 | Miles on the MBTA
A route from Fitchburg to Gardner sounds really useful! After all, Gardner is pretty skimpy in the transit department, so something connecting it to a bigger city is a good idea, and one that seems like it would result in good ridership. Is the awkwardly-titled...
by Miles Taylor | Apr 6, 2017 | Miles on the MBTA
Well, it’s not every day you see a train car in the middle of City Hall Plaza! For the past three days, the T has had a 2/3-scale mock-up of one of the new Orange Line cars that will be entering service in 2018-2019, and it was amazing. Time for a multitude of...
