by Miles Taylor | Mar 29, 2018 | Miles on the MBTA
Time for a gauntlet-style review of all of RIPTA’s URI services! Spoilers: they’re not too useful. Shh…it’s trying to camouflage with the trees! A well-timed 66 from the 210 took Sam and I up to Fairgrounds Road. We got off here and walked down...
by Miles Taylor | Mar 28, 2018 | Miles on the MBTA
More Flex action! The 210 serves the URI campus, as well as some of the immediate surroundings, which presumably hold some off-campus student housing. Since our 62 would arrive a little later than the last timepoint stop on the route, though, Sam and I would have to...
by Miles Taylor | Mar 27, 2018 | Miles on the MBTA
Another one from Mike N. – thanks, Mike! Ashland, Ashland, Ashland. The one interesting thing about this station is that it exists. Yep, this will be a boring one. Well, the first thing I saw at Ashland was a warning for high speed trains. But that doesn’t make...
by Miles Taylor | Mar 27, 2018 | Miles on the MBTA
What do you think is the most cruddy station on the B Line? That’s an easy one. There’s no doubt about it, it’s Chestnut Hill Ave. The outbound platform is so narrow that you can’t stand on it without being on the yellow line! Yeah…the B Line is fun. Get...
by Miles Taylor | Mar 25, 2018 | Miles on the MBTA
The 62 is a new route that was created to supplement the 66’s service to URI. Can it do its job, or is it muddied up with useless deviations? Well, let’s find out! You’re late! Both the 62 and the 66 were extended to Providence Station as part of...
by Miles Taylor | Mar 23, 2018 | Miles on the MBTA
It’s another really short route that’s marginally more useful than the 9, I guess. Not much else to say, let’s look at the 1! The bus at its berth. We turned west out of the Bloom Terminal, skipping downtown Taunton entirely. As we merged onto Kilmer...
