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Recent Posts from Miles on the MBTA
RIPTA: 92 (RI College/Federal Hill/East Side)
When riding RIPTA, it often seems like Providence doesn't have any...um...nice parts. However, it turns out that they just saved all those neighborhoods for the 92! Takin' the layover. The route begins at Eastside Marketplace, a supermarket that out-Whole Foods Whole...
RIPTA: 33 (Riverside)
A route through the East Providence Transit Tunnel! YES, I love going through there! Where does the 33 go afterwards? Oh...a dead shopping plaza? Huh...I mean, alright, then... A hastily-taken picture while boarding. We headed down Washington Street over the...
RIPTA: 35 (Rumford/Newport Ave)
Well, well, well, we finally return to my first RIPTA route! I was super excited to ride the 35 when I first did my Service Change post on it, but what is the 35 like as a route? Only one way to find out... We're going all the way to Prov, not East Prov! We began in...
North Billerica (1000th post!)
Well, this was a surprise! NBC was still with me, and I was worried that North Billerica was going to be boring - apparently, that is absolutely not the case! Looking down the ol' platform. Okay, we'll start with the platform, which is the least interesting part...
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Cohasset
Cohasset. More Old Colony. Cool. The parking area. The high-level platform is completely and totally standard: it's long, with benches along the whole thing, with a higher concentration under the station's modern shelter. Some paths lead to the parking lot, which has...
LRTA: 3 (South Lowell)
This is the route I reviewed with Rob Michaelson from NBC! And of course, because we had a big camera, the 3 had to be using a minibus! Being crammed onto a tiny vehicle with a big news camera was interesting, but it was a great experience...too bad the...
Nantasket Junction
Nantasket Junction. Old Colony. Let's go. This is about all you need to see. It's a single track, so it's just one platform. There are benches along the whole thing, but there's a higher concentration of them (plus wastebaskets) under the shelter. The station has 495...
RIPTA: URI Services (211 Ram Line, 69 Hill Climber, & 70 Engineering Line)
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 to...
RIPTA: 210 (Kingston Flex)
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...
GUEST POST: Ashland
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 any...
Will Asks…
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 off the...
RIPTA: 62 (URI/Providence Station)
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 RIPTA's Downtown...
GATRA: 1 (Westside)
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 Ave, it was...
GATRA: 9 (Weir/Route 138)
Oh thank God, it's a normal bus route. You don't have to call in to ride it. It uses a proper bus. The 9 is just a normal short, stupid, pointless bus route. HALLELUJAH! We headed out onto Oak Street from the Bloom Terminal, but we soon turned onto Frederick R. Martin...