by Miles Taylor | May 25, 2013 | Miles on the MBTA
For a while, the only way you could get to the airport was the Blue Line to Airport Station, where you have to take a shuttle bus to actually get to the airport. Fairly recently, we got an alternative, the Silver Line SL1. Although it’s far from perfect,...
by Miles Taylor | May 18, 2013 | Miles on the MBTA
When I first saw a map of this route, I thought it was absolutely hilarious. Why are there two routes that both have the same number, yet the 34E is 9 miles longer than the 34? Why is the 34E labeled “E” if it goes west? I don’t know the answers to...
by Miles Taylor | May 11, 2013 | Miles on the MBTA
I’ve seen Wellington many times by car: Route 16 goes on a bridge over the station. I know that it has a train yard in it. And yet, I had never explored the station before writing this review. In fact, I’ve only traveled on the northern arm on...
by Miles Taylor | May 3, 2013 | Miles on the MBTA
The 52 goes through some serious back roads. It goes by a farm, for Pete’s sake! It’s also on the chopping block, unfortunately, which means its schedule isn’t that great: every hour and a half, weekdays only (although it does go every 25-35...
by Miles Taylor | Apr 28, 2013 | Miles on the MBTA
If only I had read my own blog post. If I had, I would’ve realized that there were Red Line shuttle buses between Alewife and Harvard. Boy, you should’ve heard the curses when my father and I came to the Alewife station entrance only to see a sign that...
by Miles Taylor | Apr 26, 2013 | Miles on the MBTA
Bowdoin is the last MBTA station I had to visit. I had gone through them all (except the “stations” on a section of the Silver Line, but that doesn’t count), but I never really got the chance to go to Bowdoin (or boy-doin as I used to pronounce it...
