by Miles Taylor | Mar 22, 2013 | Miles on the MBTA
Porter is a fun station. It’s the deepest in the system, meaning a 143-foot escalator ride. The escalator ride is great, with a mural of trains going down and a mural of birds going up. It can admittedly be kind of a scary ride, but it’s worth it....
by Miles Taylor | Mar 20, 2013 | Miles on the MBTA
When I say “train quotes,” I don’t mean the train is talking: I mean automated stop announcements. Anyone reading this blog has likely been on a train with automated stop announcements; it’s when there’s an automatic prerecorded speaker...
by Miles Taylor | Mar 16, 2013 | Miles on the MBTA
The only reason I wanted to take the 28 is because I’m a sucker for articulated buses. The 28 uses them all the time, so that’s fine with me. The 28 is one of the 7 (!) buses connecting Mattapan and Ashmont stations to the Orange Line. It travels almost...
by Miles Taylor | Mar 13, 2013 | Miles on the MBTA
Getting from Harvard to Alewife should normally take about 5 minutes. But today, that trip took 20 (for the record, I wanted to take the bus being the transit-obsessed person I am, but it was my friend Calvin’s turn to pick the transit method). We ended up...
by Miles Taylor | Mar 8, 2013 | Miles on the MBTA
UPDATE 5/24/2020: With the station in this form now closed, check out this retrospective! Lechmere is a station on its last legs. Once the Green Line West Medford extension is up and running, Lechmere will have been relocated and redesigned. Because of this, you can...
by Miles Taylor | Mar 6, 2013 | Miles on the MBTA
As we all know, the MBTA is in serious debt. As we also know, fares rose 25% last year. Well, the fares are rising again – this time by 33%, on top of the fare raise from last year! There are actually two options: the 33% fare raise, or a smaller fare increase...
