by Miles Taylor | Jun 7, 2015 | Miles on the MBTA
Most of the buses downtown stop at Otis Street and/or Franklin Street. The 11 decides to mix it up by terminating at Bedford Street @ Chauncy Street, south of Downtown Crossing and more or less in Chinatown. Thing is, the 11 technically doesn’t technically...
by Miles Taylor | Jun 6, 2015 | Miles on the MBTA
Seems like you can’t escape the brutalism on the Orange Line, can you? Down in the Southwest Corridor you’ve got lots of concrete stations – and then up north there are all those other concrete stations. Oak Grove is your typical suburban terminus,...
by Miles Taylor | Jun 1, 2015 | Miles on the MBTA
Okay, so in my Prudential review (Did I really give that station a 4/10? Gosh, I should retroactively lower that to a -50,000), I mentioned that “it lacks the charm that its sister station, Symphony, has…” Well, I’m pretty sure my eyes had been...
by Miles Taylor | May 31, 2015 | Miles on the MBTA
Do you ever get those mysterious disappearing buses? The ones that are scheduled to come at a certain time but never do? Yeah, that happened here with the 100. It runs frequently enough so that it wasn’t too much of a burden, but it was still annoying. This is...
by Miles Taylor | May 30, 2015 | Miles on the MBTA
Due to Harvard graduation a few days ago, the bus stop at Johnston Gate was closed. However, I think the replacement bus stop might be a bit far away… Um…MBTA, you know that Avenue de Lafayette is in downtown Boston, right?
by Miles Taylor | May 30, 2015 | Miles on the MBTA
Well, I’ve had a long hiatus, but I’ll make it up to you guys with a weekday-only express bus that was ALSO on the chopping block back in 2012! Yes, we’re taking a trip up I-93 today on the 325. And as usual for I-93 express buses, there was lots and...
