by Miles Taylor | Oct 20, 2019 | Miles on the MBTA
By the time my friend and I got to this point in the day, we had been seeing a lot of fields and tiny towns. The 31 was kinda like going back to civilization – it travels to the giant metropolis of Northampton! Okay, maybe it’s not that big, but it is the...
by Miles Taylor | Oct 6, 2019 | Miles on the MBTA
Welcome to the most rural route that the FRTA operates! The 41, the system’s westernmost route, runs out to a tiny town called Charlemont that I wouldn’t have heard of if the 41 didn’t end there. Also, it only runs four times per day… The...
by Miles Taylor | Oct 2, 2019 | Miles on the MBTA
Okay…time to do the 20, but in the opposite direction! Yeah, sorry if the 21 ends up being a bit redundant… Yikes, what an unflattering angle. So we headed straight up Federal Street, leaving downtown Greenfield pretty quickly in favor of more suburban...
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...
