by Miles Taylor | Feb 26, 2019 | Miles on the MBTA
The day after I became the first passenger to ride SEPTA’s new bus route, the MBTA just had to open a new station! And yes, I did go to Boston to review it. Not just any station, too – a Fairmount Line station. Where all of the stations are notoriously the...
by Miles Taylor | Feb 21, 2019 | Miles on the MBTA
Welcome back to the LRTA! I gotta say, we’ve got a pretty good route here with the 7. Could this be the best route on the system? Maybe! Wow…leafy! We began, like all LRTA routes (well, except that which must not be named), at the Kennedy Center. From...
by Miles Taylor | Feb 19, 2019 | Miles on the MBTA
Oh, also walking. Did I mention walking? There’s a lot of...
by Miles Taylor | Feb 12, 2019 | Miles on the MBTA
We are finally done with this system! I have been continuously reviewing SRTA routes since…geez, since August???? Okay, I did not realize it’s been that long. Basically, ever since I transitioned to Miles in Transit, every “MBTA” bus review has...
by Miles Taylor | Jan 28, 2019 | Miles on the MBTA
Totally out of nowhere, the MBTA has released its proposals for the bus network in the first phase of the Better Bus Project. These changes are meant to be easy targets that are cost-neutral, with the bigger fixes coming later down the line in Phase 2. Each route gets...
by Miles Taylor | Jan 23, 2019 | Miles on the MBTA
At this point, I had been riding the SRTA more or less continuously for 9 hours, so as you can imagine, I was exhausted. Ergo, I wasn’t happy when for the second-to-last route, the SRTA decided to throw me this: So that’s what we’re up against. The...
