by Miles Taylor | May 15, 2018 | Miles on the MBTA
Oh no, ATHOL has an “intermodal transit center” too? This has to be even worse than the Gardner one, right? Well, right off the bat, I’ll say this: the Athol ITC is in an old train station, so it’s more “intermodal” than...
by Miles Taylor | May 12, 2018 | Miles on the MBTA
Ohhh…we get to go back to…Gardner! And ride a really long, deviation-filled bus route around the whole…city. My…favorite……place………. YAY! GARDNER!!!! The bus was very nice, at least. It was that rear door-less...
by Miles Taylor | May 11, 2018 | Miles on the MBTA
The Devens Regional Shuttle recently celebrated its one-year anniversary, and MART threw a lovely party for it at one of its stops, with free swag to boot! I didn’t attend the party, and I have no idea how many people attended it, but my guess is not too many....
by Miles Taylor | May 10, 2018 | Miles on the MBTA
Surely Shirley can’t be that bad! Great, I’ve gotten that joke out of the way. Andddddd…that’s it! Shirley has one very very very small platform. Quite very small. However, it’s entirely occupied by a shelter that’s actually...
by Miles Taylor | May 10, 2018 | Miles on the MBTA
I gotta say, a suburban, rich town like Acton (median household income $133,532) is one of the last places I would expect to see an awful minibus shuttle! I mean, why does Acton get an hourly service, while Webster (a place where people actually use the bus)...
by Miles Taylor | May 8, 2018 | Miles on the MBTA
Sam and I barely made the 42! We ran and ran and ran and we couldn’t find a stop, so we just kept going down Southbridge Street until finally, we came across the strangest bus stop in Worcester: WOAH! Goodness, the 558 is longer than I thought! Yeah, I...
