by Miles Taylor | Oct 5, 2018 | Miles on the MBTA
Time for a short route that’s not particularly noteworthy. Okay, it’s the FR 8! We left the parking lot of Bristol Community College and turned onto Elsbree Street, which soon passed Durfee High School. There were some suburban businesses as we turned onto...
by Miles Taylor | Oct 2, 2018 | Miles on the MBTA
It’s time to go west! Leave the constraints of Fall River and escape to the idyllic countryside of Swansea! It’s home to such wonderful points of interest as, and this is a direct quote from Wikipedia, “Swansea Motor Inn (featuring water...
by Miles Taylor | Sep 23, 2018 | Miles on the MBTA
What was my first impression of the 9? Well, I couldn’t really form one…because the bus never showed up! Sam and I got to the first stop five minutes early, but I guess that was a little too late – the rascal left before we got there. All was lost....
by Miles Taylor | Sep 18, 2018 | Miles on the MBTA
Believe it or not, the SRTA route with the most legit terminus is also one of the least frequent routes on the system. Yes, the 7 ends at a proper turn around, probably a remnant from an old streetcar! Yet it’s one of the few in-town routes that runs every hour...
by Miles Taylor | Sep 13, 2018 | Miles on the MBTA
The 3 ends right around where the 5 ends, so let’s hop on that to get back into Fall River! I actually got the 3 from Stop & Shop, since it’s an outbound-only deviation right near the terminus! It actually does another one just before the Stop &...
by Miles Taylor | Sep 10, 2018 | Miles on the MBTA
I didn’t think the SRTA actually makes it to Rhode Island, but I was wrong – the FR 5 very much enters that friendly small state to the south. As for the rest of the route? It isn’t all that interesting, alas. We did a little loopy-loop coming out of...
