Unlike the rather rural 5, the BRTA has deemed that the 12/14, a loop serving the southeast area of Pittsfield, is worthy of bidirectional service! Wow, people, this is huge: you can go both ways around this loop. I'm sure we're dealing with a ridership powerhouse...

I was hoping that the whole Corona quarantine rendering me a housebound worm would at least spur me to write more (a "productive worm"), but it seems like it's instead encouraging me to mindlessly watch a bunch of YouTube videos (a "worm worm"). So, uh, bear with me...

The 16 interlines straight into the 15, so I wasn't able to get a proper shot of the bus! Shoot. I had to get creative. We headed out from the ITC onto the highway-like Center Street, passing some suburban businesses before turning onto Housatonic Street, whose retail...

Yikes, Crane Ave is the main street on the 16, and it offers pretty much nothing transit-oriented aside from one apartment complex. That's the breaks when you're running a system as rural as the BRTA, I guess... Minibus time! The initial section on North Street was...

Alright, the 11 is short and sweet, so let's just get into it. Boarding at the terminal. This route heads straight west from the ITC, meaning we didn't have to deal with downtown Pittsfield at all. We made our way straight onto College Way, which turned into the...

Oh my gosh, what the heck were they thinking with this route and all its inbound-only deviations? "YOU get an inbound-only deviation, and YOU get an inbound-only deviation. EVERYBODY GETS INBOUND-ONLY DEVIATIONS!!!!!!!!" Needless to say, the outbound 4 trip to...

Another North Adams-based shuttle, although this one is much straighter. Today we're heading to the northwesternmost point of Massachusetts on the 3! The minibus boarding at North Adams's colored shelter. From the Main Street bus stop in North Adams, we looped around...

And here's how you get from the North Adams Walmart end of the 1 to North Adams proper. Is the 34 a direct shuttle route that lessens the pain from having to transfer from the 1 just to get to downtown North Adams? Or is it an all-over-the-place mess? Uh-oh. I'll say...

Okay, that's kind of a lie, though...the 1 goes as far as the Walmart in North Adams. It's technically in North Adams, but it's pretty darn far from anything else in the city. But this is the BRTA's only link from the northern part of its system to Pittsfield, so...

Time to continue our trip into Pittsfield! There was a timed connection between the 21 and the truck minibus running on the 2, so we can begin this shindig right away... Oof, not a great angle. Coming down the hill from the Lee Premium Outlets, our...