by Miles Taylor | Jan 10, 2015 | Miles on the MBTA
Yes, I actually went on another non-MBTA transportation authority while in Lowell. This is the MVRTA (Merrimack Valley Regional Transportation Authority), which covers a large area around its hub in Lawrence, going as far as Hampton Beach in New Hampshire. The 41...
by Miles Taylor | Jan 10, 2015 | Miles on the MBTA
In my post about the LRTA’s downtown shuttle, I made a mistake. I said that the Robert Kennedy Transportation Center forms the whole of the complex: bus station and Commuter Rail station. But it turns out that only the bus station is the Kennedy Transportation...
by Miles Taylor | Jan 10, 2015 | Miles on the MBTA
The 2 is a crazy route meant to serve residential areas to the east of Lowell. I had wanted to ride another LRTA route for fun, and the 2 showed up at the Kennedy Center. When I got in, I asked the driver if it would loop around and come back to Lowell. “This is...
by Miles Taylor | Jan 9, 2015 | Miles on the MBTA
The Robert Kennedy Transportation Center (which also houses the MBTA Commuter Rail station), hub of the LRTA, is something like an 18 minute walk from downtown Lowell. It’s doable for sure, but you could also just take the downtown shuttle operated by the LRTA....
by Miles Taylor | Jan 8, 2015 | Miles on the MBTA
Yes, as I not-so-subtly hinted in the last post, I did indeed take the LRTA up to Lowell from the 351. The system has 18 main routes, all fanning out from the Lowell Commuter Rail station. These are further divided into city routes and suburban routes, the former...
by Miles Taylor | Jan 3, 2015 | Miles on the MBTA
Well, I got far fewer strange looks than expected when I boarded this one. The 351 is a reverse-commute route, meant to transport people from Alewife to the scores and scores of office parks up in the northwest. As it’s a commuter bus, it’s rush hours...
