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Recent Posts from Miles on the MBTA
Random Photos: Is There a Laundry Service?
I got on a pretty much empty train at Alewife, and sat down. Looking across from me, I noticed that someone had left a whole bunch of clothing under one of the seats! How the heck do you forget something like that? Geez, Louise...
Malden Center
Malden Center is the undisputed hub of the northern Orange Line. The subway station is accompanied by a huge number of buses, as well as a Commuter Rail station. It's also elevated! However, brutalist architecture is very present here...uh-oh. The Orange Line...
Revere Beach
Revere Beach is a really weird station. It has a lot of strange little oddities that really make it super unique. Also, it's the last station on the Blue Line to be reviewed on this blog, at least until Government Center opens! It's too bad, because the Blue Line has...
Orient Heights
Orient Heights Station was a mess. It wasn't accessible, and it was literally falling apart. Finally, in 2013, the MBTA gave it a much-needed renovation. But does that mean the aesthetics are good? Well, let's find out. The platform. Okay, so I have to say, I wasn't a...
Wood Island
A blog post?! Gee, it's been so long since the last one, I hope I still remember how to write these... Yes, I've been super busy lately and haven't been able to write. But I finally have another station review, as we take a look at a really generic Blue Line station,...
Airport
Being a Red Line user, the Silver Line is the much more efficient way of getting to the airport for me. But for Blue, Orange, and Green Line (before Government Center was closed) users, Airport Station is more direct. And most tourists would probably use the station...
Random Photos (Videos): Blue Line Train Switching Power
A Blue Line train switching from third rail to pantograph power at Airport Station. It was a lot less exciting than I thought it would be... If the video below doesn't load, watch it here.
Random Photos: Balloon in the Rafters
Okay, what is it with things getting stuck in the roof at Airport Station? First it was a squirrel, now this: It wasn't a happy Valentine's Day for whomever lost the balloon...
Service Change: Logan Airport Shuttle – Route 33
Massport runs a few free shuttle bus routes within Logan Airport (for the full list, click here). The one I took was the 33, which goes from Terminals C and E to the Blue Line Airport Station. The bus itself was really nice - it was pretty much the same as the Back...
Service Change: Back Bay Logan Express
Recently, Massport began running a bus route from the Hynes Convention Center and Copley Square to Logan Airport. It's free if you have a CharlieCard, but if you lack one (presumably like most people who would use this bus), it costs five dollars one way. Is it...
Landsdowne (Yawkey)
UPDATE 4/8/2019: Yeah, this station's called Landsdowne now. Nothing else has changed, so I'm just gonna keep the review as is. Carry on. This station's kinda weird. Tucked away behind a parking lot on Brookline Ave, Yawkey was originally opened just for ball games....
Chestnut Hill
Too much to review, too little time. I have a non-MBTA bus to write about, and that'll certainly come out at some point, but I figured I'd get a few stations done first. Since I just reviewed the 60, here's Chestnut Hill, the closest station to that bus. And being a D...
60 (Chestnut Hill – Kenmore Station via Brookline Village and Cypress Street)
Man, there are a lot more buses that I rode but didn't review than I thought. The 60 is yet another one of these - I rode the 60 a few years ago, but didn't review it because I didn't have any pictures of it. Well, I've got some pictures now, so it's time to take a...
55 (Jersey and Queensberry – Copley Square or Park and Tremont Streets via Ipswich Street)
The 55 is an odd little route. Running between Park Street (or Copley Square nights and weekends) and the quiet West Fens neighborhood south of Kenmore Square, it's certainly a "locals-only" route. Weirder still is that almost all of the 55 runs along with the Green...
“B” Asks…
"How many above ground, non tunnel, exposed to weather miles are in the MBTA system?" I don't have an exact, official amount for that, but I did some quick math to get an approximation. The MBTA subway system is 64 miles in total, not including the Silver Line. Of...