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Recent Posts from Miles on the MBTA
ANNOUNCEMENT: “Miles on the PVTA,” for a month or so
Yes, it's true - I'll be in Amherst with Sam for the next month attending the Summer Transportation Institute at UMass. I've given myself the lofty goal of riding every PVTA route, at least those that run in the summer. Thus, after I finish up my backlog of...
MBTA Buses in Winthrop!
I'm very late on this, but the old Paul Revere buses on the 712/713 have been replaced by brand-new T buses, with announcements and all! They still use the awful Paul Revere fareboxes, so you still can't use CharlieCards on the route, but it's still a huge...
Bonus Review: Logan Airport Ferry Terminal
Wow, who knew the Logan Airport Ferry Terminal had this much...infrastructure? I guess I wasn't expecting a building and everything - in my head I thought it would just be a dock - so this was a very welcome surprise! Is the terminal any good, though? Let's find out....
Logan Airport Shuttle: 66 (Serves All Terminals, subway station, LOC, and Water Transportation Dock)
The 66 feels like Massport said, "Let's have a shuttle route that serves everything!" And thus, this long, complicated route was born. It's time for about as epic a ride as you can get where airport shuttles are concerned... The bus earlier at Terminal A. Nathan...
Logan Airport Shuttle: 11 (Serves All Terminals)
A Logan Airport shuttle that just loops around all the terminals makes perfect sense in theory. In practice, though? Well, let's find out with a ride on the 11. The bus pulling into Terminal E. Nathan and I decided that the only part of the 11 we really needed to...
Logan Airport Shuttle: 88 (Serves All Terminals and Economy Parking Garage)
Oh, Logan Airport parking...why musteth thou beeth so expensive? At a hefty $32.00 per day, Central Parking may be convenient to all the terminals, but it sure ain't cheap. Luckily, Economy Parking is here to help, with a rate of just $23.00 per day! What a "steal!"...
Logan Airport Shuttle: 77 (Serves All Terminals to the Chelsea Garage)
It's odd that my first Logan Airport Shuttle review happens to cover the craziest and most obscure route on the system! The 77 "provided [sic] employee bus service between Logan Airport and the Chelsea Garage," and it runs incredibly frequently whilst doing so. The...
GATRA: Pembroke Shuttle (Video Review)
Surprise! How's about a video review on this lovely Thursday evening? A walk from Pembroke to Halifax after taking GATRA's shuttle turned a bit crazy...
Halifax
Hey, it's an Old Colony station that actually has something noteworthy about it! It's just too bad that one noteworthy thing is also terrible...but we'll get to that. Here's Halifax! Coming into the station. It starts out pretty boring, though. The station is, of...
GATRA: Pembroke Shuttle
One of the strangest things about the GATRA is that it's composed of many different "systems" that don't really connect and have nothing to do with each other. Some of the most isolated of those systems are the rush hour-only commuter shuttles: weird, one-way routes...
Hanson
Why on earth would I come to Hanson, you ask? Could it be to ride the rush-hour only GATRA shuttle from there to Pembroke, you ask? Why, yes, that was exactly why I came to Hanson! Before I can review that exciting GATRA shuttle, though, I have to...
RIPTA: 14 (West Bay)
Most of RIPTA's routes are of pretty normal length...but then there are the long ones that go miles and miles into the Rhode Island hinterlands. The least-used of those long routes (not including rush hour expresses) is the 14, which runs along the west side of...
RIPTA: 204 (Westerly Flex)
After seeing the insane Fridays-only 301, it's time to take a look at Westerly's "primary" bus "route"...although it's still incredibly barebones. The 204 is a flex service, which is why "route" is in quotation marks: you can call in to request the route to take...
10 “Boston Landing” Comments
So...my Boston Landing review kinda blew up. Thanks to posts on Universal Hub and Reddit, the post has gotten almost 3500 views in a few days! First of all, I want to thank everyone for reading, and welcome those who might be new - I hope you stick around. The...
Boston Landing
There isn't much that's more exciting than a new Commuter Rail station! Well...maybe a certain Green Line Extension would be nice (COUGH), but that's not the topic of today's post! No, today we'll be looking at the Worcester Line's newest infill station, located in...