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Recent Posts from Miles on the MBTA
Brookline Village
After a trio of southern Red Line stations, let's take a trip out west to the Green Line. In particular, we're heading out on the D branch. And even more specific, we're looking at Brookline Village, where my mother dropped me off from JP so I could take the train...
Braintree
Every Braintree branch station was originally opened with some form of parking (Quincy Center's garage has since closed, but the point still stands). For the more northerly stations, the parking lots are somewhat secondary to the neighborhoods around them. But Quincy...
Wollaston
UPDATE 8/16/19: This station has been completely rebuilt! Check out the new review here. Wollaston is definitely one of the most notable stations on the Red Line. Does that mean it's good? Hahahahahahaha, absolutely not. And being the only non-wheelchair accessible...
Broadway
I wanted to head down to Quincy Center, but the first train that had come was an Ashmont train. Rather than just wait it out for the next Braintree one (in ten minutes), I decided to just get on the Ashmont train. I didn't want to have to change trains at JFK/UMASS,...
69 (Harvard/Holyoke Gate – Lechmere Station via Cambridge Street)
I've taken the 69 a fair amount of times before writing this review. Most of those times have admittedly just been from the Cambridge Rindge and Latin school to Harvard Station (only a few blocks), because I'm lazy and sometimes miss the 68. However, I also took more...
236 (Quincy Center Station – South Shore Plaza via East Braintree and Braintree Station)
I went to the South Shore Plaza many times when I was younger. My nana would always take me, and I have particularly vivid memories of riding the glass elevator up and down, over and over again. Visiting the Plaza again on the 236 was certainly nostalgic, and it was...
Random Photos: Speedy Commuter Rail Train
While waiting for the Red Line at Wollaston (this is all kind of building up to a review at some point), a Commuter Rail train came speeding by. It kicked up snow as it went along, and made for some pretty cool photos. The back of the train (but technically the...
Random Photos: Tickets in Chinese
There's a small Chinatown around Wollaston Station, and so the MBTA decided to cater to that. Inside the station, they have a ticket chart in Chinese! I wonder if this is the only one on the system.
Random Photos: Driver Change?
I forgot to post this one earlier. At Green Street, when our train came in, it stopped at the end of the platform. The driver then opened the front door, got out, and was replaced by someone else. Is this regular protocol? Do train drivers just do this randomly? Oh,...
Transit Tales: I Just Wanna Go Home!
It all started at South Station. The driver announced over the loudspeaker that we would be standing by due to some issue with the train doors (or something). After about a 10 minute wait with constant reassuring announcements of "It'll just be a little, little,...
Green Street
After taking the 41, we had two options: take the 39 down to Forest Hills, or make the 10 minute walk to Green Street. I figured I'd have plenty more chances to go to the former, whereas the latter is no longer served by any buses. So after a walk through a nice...
41 (Centre and Eliot Streets – JFK/UMASS Station via Dudley Station, Centre Street, and Jackson Square Station)
Okay, so even if I made fun of the angry driver of the 8, he did help us out a lot. If he hadn't dropped us off back at JFK/UMASS, we wouldn't have been able to catch the 41 to Jamaica Plain Center. I still don't understand the driver's "book writing" analogy,...
Random Photos: Alewife in the Snow (With Diamonds)
My friend Lucy (who took the photos) and I were taking a little walk in the snow, and ended up at Alewife Station. Surprisingly, a few of the doors were open, but the station was deserted, there being no T service at the time. When we were on the balcony over the...
Random Photos: Don’t Go Looking For the 48
The 48 bus went to Green Street station before it was brutally cut from the system. Of course, instead of replacing the sign at the station, the MBTA just took out their roll of duct tape... Why didn't they just tape up the whole thing?
Random Photos: Low-Flying Plane at Beachmont
Logan Airport's influence spreads quite far. All the way up in Revere and one can still see the planes flying low overhead. The plane. Looking out over the station.