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...
by Miles Taylor | Nov 21, 2019 | Miles on the MBTA
Well, now that we’ve finished the FRTA, there’s nowhere else to go but west. It’s time to tackle the BRTA, the westernmost RTA in the state, covering a big vertical rectangle of land spanning from Williamstown to Great Barrington. But before we can...
