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Service Change: Scotland, Part 3 – The Highlands
Click here for Part 1, click here for Part 2. Our final part of the Scotland series takes us to the northern tip of Great Britain...and beyond. But we first begin in Inverness, the largest city in the Highlands (with slightly under 47,000 residents) and one with a...
GATRA: GATRA GO
Gotta tell ya, I was not anticipating a GATRA ride on my return to Boston. "Wanna do the GATRA GO when we get to Foxboro?" Jules asked on the train there. YES, OF COURSE I DO. Oh boy, time for a GATRA trip, and it's a doozy! Okay, get ready for a bunch of phone...
Foxboro (and the “Foxboro Pilot”!)
Alright, strap in for a long preamble: for me, getting the first trip on a new MBTA Commuter Rail service ain't how it used to be. While I could've attempted to ride the first inbound train at 5:47 (potentially winning Patriots tickets, apparently), I wanted to do the...
FRTA: 31 (Northampton/Greenfield)
By the time my friend and I got to this point in the day, we had been seeing a lot of fields and tiny towns. The 31 was kinda like going back to civilization - it travels to the giant metropolis of Northampton! Okay, maybe it's not that big, but it is the largest town...
FRTA: 41 (Charlemont/Greenfield)
Welcome to the most rural route that the FRTA operates! The 41, the system's westernmost route, runs out to a tiny town called Charlemont that I wouldn't have heard of if the 41 didn't end there. Also, it only runs four times per day... The minibus comes rolling in....
FRTA: 21 (Greenfield Community)
Okay...time to do the 20, but in the opposite direction! Yeah, sorry if the 21 ends up being a bit redundant... Yikes, what an unflattering angle. So we headed straight up Federal Street, leaving downtown Greenfield pretty quickly in favor of more suburban businesses...
Service Change: Scotland, Part 2 – To the Isle of Skye
After our adventures in Edinburgh and Glasgow, the urban part of my family's Scotland trip was essentially over. It was time to take a train way up into the Scottish Highlands, and on the eponymous (West) Highland Line, no less - widely considered to be one of the...
GUEST POST: Grafton
Ben sent in his take on the Grafton Commuter Rail station. Thanks, Ben! Grafton station. It's a nice little station on the Worcester line. The station itself is in the middle of absolute nowhere, near the Shrewsbury town line, off of State Route 30. The station is in...
VIDEO: The Greyhound Trip That Doesn’t Exist
Nathan and I bought $10 EconomyExtra Greyhound tickets for their once-a-day service from Boston South Station to Logan Airport. This is what happened. The video is also available here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3iPE3DRsVg
FRTA: 20 (GreenLink Connector)
Okay, "GreenLink Connector", huh? Makes it sound like some sort of frequent Greenfield shuttle. That would be great! A route connecting up major points in Greenfield that runs frequently all day! So, I'm just checking the schedule for the 20 now: let's see, it...
GUEST POST: RIPTA: 24x (Newport/Fall River/Providence)
Jules rode RIPTA's new 24x route recently. Here are his thoughts: If you caught Miles’s recent post about the fall changes at the RTAs in southern New England, you may have been surprised to learn that RIPTA was tacking on an interstate express route connecting...
FRTA: 32 (Orange/Greenfield)
Our FRTA saga begins! For those who don't know, the FRTA covers Franklin County, the least dense county in Massachusetts, with a hub in Greenfield. It is a very rural system, and that makes it a really interesting one to review. We begin with its route that runs the...
MART: Boston Shuttle
The Boston Shuttle. This thing is a beast. You may remember my angry review of the Worcester Shuttle, which boasted an insane boarding procedure requiring passengers to give the driver their names, a minibus with absolutely no signage, and a schedule that was...
MART: Littleton – Westford Commuter Rail Shuttle
The route that's furthest back in my backlog is one that I wanted to save to be the last MART route I review. I was all set to write it up, and then...they added this. So before I can talk about that route, I have to talk about the Littleton - Westford Commuter Rail...
The Unofficial MBTA Bathroom Map!
I was with my friend on the Red Line leaving Ashmont. "I have to use the bathroom," they said. And I...had no idea where any bathrooms were. I knew there was one at South Station, but were there any before that? "If only someone had made a map showing all of the...