by Miles Taylor | Jun 22, 2014 | Miles on the MBTA
When we went to the Smithsonian Museum of American History, I just had to drag my friends to the transportation exhibit. It was fantastic, and I took a few (bad) pictures. Here they are: An old streetcar. The front of a bus, but not the rest. A replica of a...
by Miles Taylor | Jun 21, 2014 | Miles on the MBTA
As expected, we didn’t take the Metro on my school trip to Washington D.C. And I don’t really have much to say about the coach bus, since it was practically the same one as the one on the UMASS shuttle. Other than that, there’s really not much...
by Miles Taylor | Jun 10, 2014 | Miles on the MBTA
This is the last Silver Line route to be reviewed on this blog! Huzzah! That said, the SL4 follows almost the exact same route as the SL5, and was only created to provide a connection from Dudley to the SL1 and SL2. But actually, it ended up being more useful than it...
by Miles Taylor | Jun 8, 2014 | Miles on the MBTA
I always thought Reading would be a one-off, but here we are with another Commuter Rail station. Waltham is a Zone 2 station on the Fitchburg Line, fairly close to Boston. It’s a pretty major bus hub, which is how I got here in the first place. The area where...
by Miles Taylor | Jun 5, 2014 | Miles on the MBTA
This post was written back when this station was called Dudley, but I’ve changed the title to make it more easily searchable from the blog. In Greek mythology, the Labyrinth was built to hold the Minotaur, a half man, half bull creature. The Labyrinth was so...
by Miles Taylor | Jun 2, 2014 | Miles on the MBTA
This is the final post on Bermuda, then we’ll head back to Boston. If you’re wondering about why posts have been so infrequent, it’s because I have an algebra final coming up and have been working hard for that. In two weeks there should be more...