by Miles Taylor | Jan 15, 2016 | Miles on the MBTA
Palm Tran is the bus system servicing Palm Beach County in Florida – my first notable experience with them was a typo. In the Lake Worth inset on their system map, it says that Route 62 goes to the intracoastal “Sunday’s only”....
by Miles Taylor | Jan 2, 2016 | Miles on the MBTA
Well, we’ve just had our first snowfall after some unseasonable warmth. I’m happy to finally see some snow on the ground, but come on, the warm weather was nice! So before I come to terms with the fact that it ain’t autumn anymore, let’s take a...
by Miles Taylor | Dec 31, 2015 | Miles on the MBTA
I was in Florida for the past few days, and I rode some public transportation over there! I’ll be doing posts about that in the coming days, so look forward to that.
by Miles Taylor | Dec 26, 2015 | Miles on the MBTA
Split terminals. Ugh. Yes, I consider it lucky that most of the MBTA’s bus routes are linear and only have one terminus. However, there are those unfortunate few that have to deal with two…such as the 89. Much of the route is shared, but on its eastern...
by Miles Taylor | Dec 25, 2015 | Miles on the MBTA
This is a pretty hard route to have a catchy intro for. I mean, the 88 is a very simple bus that just gets its job done. It runs mostly through Somerville, with a brief section in Cambridge as it comes into Lechmere. Um…and that’s about it. Let’s...
by Miles Taylor | Dec 20, 2015 | Miles on the MBTA
Oh, how I hate the 77 sometimes. After waiting 20 minutes for a bus on a Saturday (when headways should be 10), I ended up just walking from North Cambridge to Arlington Center. And the whole way, I kept checking back to see if a bus was coming, and when one...
