by Miles Taylor | Dec 23, 2019 | Miles on the MBTA
Day two of new MBTA routes, and we’re heading down to Braintree to ride the first 226 ever! Oh wait…the first trip leaves before the first Red Line train gets there. Huh, okay, hang on… Day two of new routes, and we’re heading down to Braintree...
by Miles Taylor | Dec 22, 2019 | Miles on the MBTA
Isn’t it great that this service change fell on a Sunday? Since the 226 doesn’t run on Sundays, I’m able to get day-one reviews of both that and the other (seven-days-a-week) new route introduced this rating that we’ll be talking about today:...
by Miles Taylor | Dec 8, 2019 | Miles on the MBTA
Schedules have been released! It’s Better Bus Part 2! We’ve got some brand-new routes; we’ve got some cut routes; and we’ve got a myriad of little schedule changes in between the big ones that don’t really matter but that I still have to...
by Miles Taylor | Dec 3, 2019 | Miles on the MBTA
Why is my last ever Commuter Rail station review of Holbrook/Randolph, a station that’s less than 15 miles from Boston, gets served by every single Middleborough/Lakeville Line train, and has connections to two, count ’em, two local bus routes? The world...
by Miles Taylor | Nov 26, 2019 | Miles on the MBTA
Despite reviewing the BRTA’s hub at Pittsfield first, my friend and I didn’t actually start our day there. Instead we parked at Fairgrounds Plaza, the first stop of the 21, which we took toward Pittsfield at the beginning of the day. If you’re...
by Miles Taylor | Nov 22, 2019 | Miles on the MBTA
There’s no post tonight…on this blog. But check out the collab I did with Ari “Amateur Planner” Ofsevit over on his blog – we review Boston Magazine’s “40 ideas to save transportation in Boston”! Each one gets a score...
