by Miles Taylor | Feb 1, 2015 | Miles on the MBTA
There’s a small Chinatown around Wollaston Station, and so the MBTA decided to cater to that. Inside the station, they have a ticket chart in Chinese! I wonder if this is the only one on the system.
by Miles Taylor | Feb 1, 2015 | Miles on the MBTA
I forgot to post this one earlier. At Green Street, when our train came in, it stopped at the end of the platform. The driver then opened the front door, got out, and was replaced by someone else. Is this regular protocol? Do train drivers just do this randomly? Oh,...
by Miles Taylor | Feb 1, 2015 | Miles on the MBTA
It all started at South Station. The driver announced over the loudspeaker that we would be standing by due to some issue with the train doors (or something). After about a 10 minute wait with constant reassuring announcements of “It’ll just be a little,...
by Miles Taylor | Jan 31, 2015 | Miles on the MBTA
After taking the 41, we had two options: take the 39 down to Forest Hills, or make the 10 minute walk to Green Street. I figured I’d have plenty more chances to go to the former, whereas the latter is no longer served by any buses. So after a walk through a nice...
by Miles Taylor | Jan 31, 2015 | Miles on the MBTA
Okay, so even if I made fun of the angry driver of the 8, he did help us out a lot. If he hadn’t dropped us off back at JFK/UMASS, we wouldn’t have been able to catch the 41 to Jamaica Plain Center. I still don’t understand the driver’s...
by Miles Taylor | Jan 28, 2015 | Miles on the MBTA
My friend Lucy (who took the photos) and I were taking a little walk in the snow, and ended up at Alewife Station. Surprisingly, a few of the doors were open, but the station was deserted, there being no T service at the time. When we were on the balcony over the...
