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...
by Miles Taylor | Mar 3, 2013 | Miles on the MBTA
In my post about the 30, I mentioned how I desperately wanted to visit the Bay State Model Railroad Museum, and how it’s only open Wednesday nights. Well, twice a year they do an open house, and one of them is this weekend. My mother and I got the chance to go,...
by Miles Taylor | Mar 1, 2013 | Miles on the MBTA
About a year ago, my father and I were at Dudley Station. We needed a bus to get home, and we ultimately ended up taking the 66 (which also goes to Harvard, but with a much wilder route). I was interested in the 1, and my father and I were back at Dudley a...
by Miles Taylor | Feb 22, 2013 | Miles on the MBTA
To understand why we even have a Silver Line, you need to know the history behind it. When they first built the Orange Line in 1901, it was elevated over Washington Street (the EL, as it was called). For 86 years, it provided speedy transportation over the...
by Miles Taylor | Feb 16, 2013 | Miles on the MBTA
Harvard is essentially the transit hub of Cambridge. You’ve got the Red Line, 13 MBTA bus routes, Harvard University Shuttle buses, and Longwood Medical Area shuttles. It’s also the third busiest MBTA station (next to Downtown Crossing and South...