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Recent Posts from Miles on the MBTA
Silver Hill
This is one of the least-served stations on the entire Commuter Rail! With only two trips in the morning and three trips in the afternoon, clearly Silver Hill is a station for commuters only. But what it lacks in service, it makes up for with lots of charm! The road...
Sam’s Operational Oculi: Running Time, Layover, and Cycle Time
In this Operational Oculi, I decided that I’d take a quick break from garage walkthroughs and begin to tackle the subject of how a public transportation schedule is made. Some terms that I am going to try to define today are “running time”, “layover”, and “cycle". I...
Kendal Green
Kendal Green, Kendal Green, Kendal Green...yup, this is a station, all right. I think I've exceeded the number of interesting words I can possibly say in this intro... Looking down the platform. By the way, that speck is an unfortunate presence on my camera lens...I...
MBTA Bus Roadeo!
This year, I got the chance to attend the 40th Annual MBTA Bus Roadeo, and it was an absolute blast! My friends Jordan, Nathan, Nick, Sam, and I met up at Sullivan at around 6:30, and then we walked over to Charlestown Garage where the Roadeo was taking place. When we...
GUEST POST: Service Change: Transit in Madrid
Here is Part 2 of Gabe W's international transit journey. Great job as usual, Gabe! Gabe here again! When I was last with you guys I was leaving Israel. Now, for the second part of the journey, we stayed in Madrid for five days! So, of course, our plane landed at...
GUEST POST: Service Change: Transit in Israel
Gabe W. sent this guest post about transit in Israel. Thanks, Gabe! Look out for Part 2, which will talk about transit in Madrid. Hello fellow MBTA riders! I’m Gabe W., a random reader of Miles's fantastic blog. Recently, I took a two week international trip to...
Poll: What do you like seeing on Miles on the MBTA?
This is just a little poll about what you guys like seeing on this blog - it'll help influence the direction I go in with it. What do you like seeing on Miles on the MBTA?
Assembly
Oh yeahhhhh...this station exists! Ever since my insanely excited post from when Assembly first opened, this place has just disappeared from my mindset. I dunno...I don't find Assembly Row particularly interesting, and the station never gets as many riders as the...
Sam’s Operational Oculi- Lynn Garage
Miles’s teachers aren’t being too nice as of late, giving him tons of homework and eating away his time to write on here. So you might be stuck with me for a little while…. Anyways, today we’re going to talk about Lynn Garage, the MBTA’s operational hub for all routes...
Miles on the Internet: mbta.com
Here's something I've realized during my explorations of RTAs: transit websites are often terrible and I love to rant about them. Then I realized that instead of ranting to friends, why not rant about them on the blog? Welcome to Miles on the Internet, where we'll be...
Bloom Bus Lines (Taunton, Raynham, Easton, and West Bridgewater – Boston)
Ooooh, now this is a very interesting one indeed! I had no idea this service even existed until my friend Sam and I took a trip down to Taunton and discovered its schedule hanging on the wall! Well, we had to give it a ride, didn't we? The bus coming into...
MBTA Excuse Generator
I'm sorry for not being able to post much - work coming into the first week of school has been tough. Here's a fun little website I found, though, called MBTA Excuse Generator. Many of you have probably already heard of it as it's been circling around the internet,...
GATRA: 8 (East Taunton/Raynham Walmart)
*TRUMPET BLASTS* WELCOME...TO THE BUSIEST ROUTE ON THE GATRA! BOW BEFORE ITS GREATNESS! GAZE IN AWE UPON ITS MANY DEVIATIONS! I INTRODUCE TO YOU...THE 8! The bus at Walmart. What's more, the bus it was using was a shiny new New Flyer MiDi, which was great to see! On...
GATRA: 7 (School Street/Raynham)
The 7 is a bit odd for GATRA. For one thing, it has a completely different map style from any other GATRA route. Also, it leaves Taunton at different times than most other routes from there. And finally, it's really good about not making deviations! Well, we're off to...
Sam’s Operational Oculi: Quincy Garage
Today’s post takes us to the Quincy Garage, located (here’s a shocker) in Quincy, MA. Quincy Garage is the operational center of all of the “200 series” routes, which for the most part congregate around the Quincy Center Station. Routes leave in all directions from...