by Miles Taylor | Nov 5, 2015 | Miles on the MBTA
Alright, let’s switch gears to a proper Commuter Rail line. As one of the more transit-dependant cities in the greater Boston area, it makes sense that Brockton has more than one Commuter Rail station. The northernmost one in the trio of Brockton stops is the...
by Miles Taylor | Nov 1, 2015 | Miles on the MBTA
Uphams Corner Station is directly served by the 15, one of the busiest bus routes on the MBTA. Plus, there are some other routes a few blocks away, at Uphams Corner proper, that get quite a bit of ridership as well. So why do all these buses succeed where the...
by Miles Taylor | Oct 29, 2015 | Miles on the MBTA
Well, I have to give the city an A for effort. They took an industrial area and completely turned it around by putting fancy new signs up that advertise it as…an industrial area. Newmarket even has a website, which calls the neighborhood “Boston’s...
by Miles Taylor | Oct 26, 2015 | Miles on the MBTA
The 17 is a short little route, taking only around 15 minutes to do the whole thing. Running between two Red Line stations, though, no one would take this from beginning to end. Like many other MBTA routes connecting two stations on the same line, it’s all about...
by Miles Taylor | Oct 24, 2015 | Miles on the MBTA
This one never made sense to me – why would a route that runs through such transit-starved neighborhoods run weekdays-only? I guess it’s because almost the whole of the 19’s length is shared with other routes, but it was always a little weird to me....
by Miles Taylor | Oct 24, 2015 | Miles on the MBTA
Considering that the CT3 was on the chopping block in 2012, I assumed it would be pretty bad. I mean, I’m not a fan of the crosstown routes anyway, since they supposedly offer “limited stops” but really don’t skip that many. So imagine my...
