by Miles Taylor | Aug 5, 2015 | Miles on the MBTA
Welcome…to the least-used station on the MBTA! What? Yes, I know Back of the Hill has fewer riders, but who cares about Back of the Hill? It’s just a sign on a street. And it’s, like, 3 feet away from Heath Street. *Cough* Anyway, Valley Road....
by Miles Taylor | Aug 5, 2015 | Miles on the MBTA
Capen Street was incredibly hard to find. For one thing, the neighborhood it’s in has crazy streets, which double back on themselves and go all over the place. Plus, the street after which the station is named is a dead end. It’s really unassuming, yet...
by Miles Taylor | Aug 5, 2015 | Miles on the MBTA
A while ago, I walked the whole Mattapan High Speed Line, going to every station along the way, and now I’ve finally gotten around to reviewing them. Let’s do this. We’re starting at by far the most used of the bunch. Mattapan is the last stop on the...
by Miles Taylor | Aug 4, 2015 | Miles on the MBTA
Okay, Haverhill’s a nice town and all, but you run out of things to do when you’re stuck there for three hours. I took it upon myself to come up with a solution: take a bus. And not just any old bus – a bus to another state. That’s right, we...
by Miles Taylor | Aug 4, 2015 | Miles on the MBTA
Bradford is incredibly close to Haverhill – a quick jaunt across the Merrimack River, and there you are. Yet the stations couldn’t be more different. Haverhill feels urban, with fairly tall buildings in view of the station. Bradford, meanwhile,...
by Miles Taylor | Aug 4, 2015 | Miles on the MBTA
Okay, it’s pronounced “Hai-ver-ill”. Not “Hai-ver-hill”. Not “Ha-ver-ill”. It’s “Hai-ver-ill”. I just wanted to get that out of the way, in case anyone reading doesn’t know how. Now no one has to worry...
