by Miles Taylor | Apr 26, 2017 | Miles on the MBTA
Nathan and I got up at 5 AM to take Amtrak to a rural place to ride a rural route. No, I’m not telling you what we tried to ride! Enjoy the trailer and stay tuned…
by Miles Taylor | Apr 25, 2017 | Miles on the MBTA
During the day, getting to Mather House is pretty simple – all you do is board the Mather Express and it’ll take you there. But once the clock strikes 4:30, things spiral out of control when the route gets replaced by the (awkwardly-titled) River Houses...
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...
