by Miles Taylor | Sep 24, 2019 | Miles on SEPTA, Miles on the MBTA
After our adventures in Edinburgh and Glasgow, the urban part of my family’s Scotland trip was essentially over. It was time to take a train way up into the Scottish Highlands, and on the eponymous (West) Highland Line, no less – widely considered to be...
by Miles Taylor | Sep 23, 2019 | Miles on the MBTA
Ben sent in his take on the Grafton Commuter Rail station. Thanks, Ben! Grafton station. It’s a nice little station on the Worcester line. The station itself is in the middle of absolute nowhere, near the Shrewsbury town line, off of State Route 30. The station...
by Miles Taylor | Sep 21, 2019 | Miles on the MBTA
Nathan and I bought $10 EconomyExtra Greyhound tickets for their once-a-day service from Boston South Station to Logan Airport. This is what happened. The video is also available...
by Miles Taylor | Sep 19, 2019 | Miles on the MBTA
Okay, “GreenLink Connector”, huh? Makes it sound like some sort of frequent Greenfield shuttle. That would be great! A route connecting up major points in Greenfield that runs frequently all day! So, I’m just checking the schedule for the 20 now:...
by Miles Taylor | Sep 15, 2019 | Miles on the MBTA
Jules rode RIPTA’s new 24x route recently. Here are his thoughts: If you caught Miles’s recent post about the fall changes at the RTAs in southern New England, you may have been surprised to learn that RIPTA was tacking on an interstate express route connecting...
by Miles Taylor | Sep 10, 2019 | Miles on the MBTA
Our FRTA saga begins! For those who don’t know, the FRTA covers Franklin County, the least dense county in Massachusetts, with a hub in Greenfield. It is a very rural system, and that makes it a really interesting one to review. We begin with its route that runs...
