by Miles Taylor | Jun 8, 2015 | Miles on the MBTA
All right, it’s time for another installment of Express Buses That Run Incredibly Infrequently and Are Extremely Hard to Find! In today’s episode, we have the 428, a Tobin Bridge express route that heads up to the Wakefield High School, more or less in the...
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?
