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Recent Posts from Miles on the MBTA
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...
GATRA: Middleborough-Taunton Connection
I...I'm speechless. I really don't know what to say. GATRA...out-GATRAed itself. I didn't think it was possible, and yet this route...defies explanation. Get ready for a crazy ride... Okay, at first glance, this doesn't look so bad. It connects Middleborough to...
GATRA: Downtown Middleborough Shuttle
I think we've done it: we've hit peak GATRA. This route, the Downtown Middleborough Shuttle, seems to do absolutely everything wrong. For example, it only serves Middleborough Station four times per day: 11:05, 12:50, 3:05, and 4:45. They time with trains, but...
Bridgewater
The original Bridgewater station was closer to downtown, but I actually like the Old Colony placement more! Yes, you heard me: the Old Colony station is in a better location than the original. That's because this stop now serves Bridgewater State University, and it's...
BAT: BSU Service (Bridgewater State University)
Since BAT labels its free student-run Bridgewater State University shuttle service as one route, I guess I'll have to review its lines in one post! Although to show how much BAT itself cares about the service, that link on the BAT website has outdated information -...
Wickford Junction
The MBTA has made many mistakes over the years. Wickford Junction is one of them. We begin with the busway. Throughout this review, we'll be talking about the various ways Rhode Island has tried to make this waste of a station into something that comes even...