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,...
by Miles Taylor | Jan 30, 2018 | Miles on the MBTA
Did you know that the intersection of Mill Street and Park Ave is the most dangerous intersection in the entire whole wide universe? Yes, who knew it would be in lil’ ol’ Worcester? Well, anyway, after taking 10 minutes to cross this abomination of...
