by Miles Taylor | Feb 7, 2018 | Miles on the MBTA
This is the mother of Commuter Rail microstations: one train in the morning and one train in the evening. Plimptonville is a tiny stop in the middle of nowhere within Walpole, and it gets the lowest ridership on the entire system. Could this be the worst station on...
by Miles Taylor | Feb 6, 2018 | Miles on the MBTA
The Franklin Line deviates to serve a housing development? WHAT IS THIS WORLD COMING TO??? Okay, okay, it’s not a deviation, it’s right there on the line. And Windsor Gardens Station actually gets great ridership considering what it’s serving....
by Miles Taylor | Feb 5, 2018 | Miles on the MBTA
It’s the Saturday before Halloween. We’re riding a bus route around a college campus in the late evening. Oh boy, this should be fun… Thanks for being slow! Hot of the heels of our Evening Van trip, Jaret, Nathan, and I needed to get back to...
by Miles Taylor | Feb 3, 2018 | Miles on the MBTA
Nathan was working at Harvard for a while, and one of the perks of that position was access to their Evening Van Service, an Uber-like minibus that runs around the Harvard area from 7 PM to 3 AM. We were looking at its service area on the app to try to find the...
by Miles Taylor | Feb 2, 2018 | Miles on the MBTA
Welcome to one of the longest and most rural routes in my jurisdiction. The 33 is a sprawling bus heading straight west from Worcester, terminating at various points, but Nathan and I took it at its very longest: for two trips in each peak period, the route is...
by Miles Taylor | Feb 1, 2018 | Miles on the MBTA
Remember the 80? That free little downtown loop that didn’t exist anywhere? Well, the WRTA has scrapped that and replaced it with a larger and not-free loop, the 40. They really pushed this one, going as far as to give it…an actual schedule online. Well,...
