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Recent Posts from Miles on the MBTA
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.
Random Photos: View From Lynn Parking Garage
I found a batch of random photos that were never published, so I'll be putting them out. The first one is the decent view from Lynn Station's parking garage. Looking over downtown. And towards Nahant. The birds circle above an interesting-looking tower on a...
8 (Harbor Point/UMASS – Kenmore Station via BU Medical Center and Dudley Station)
It's not often you miss the last stop on a bus. But once we reached the last stop of the 8, the driver decided to drive away before yelling at us. Thus, for all intents and purposes, my friend Jason and I missed the final stop of a bus route. What an...
64 (Oak Square – University Park, Cambridge or Kendall/MIT via North Beacon Street)
I never really gave the 64 much thought until I read Jordan King's guest post about it. The route sounded interesting, and I figured I'd have to give it a try at some point in time. Then a few of my friends, with no interest in buses at all, told me I should ride the...
75 (Belmont Center – Harvard Station via Concord Ave)
I think buses look amazing in the snow. It's a shame, then, that on a snowy day I had to wait for the 75 in the underground Harvard busway. That said, I'd much rather wait for the bus in a tunnel rather than a sign out in the middle of nowhere, especially if it's...
Davis
There are four folders on my computer that have pictures of Davis in them. The problem is, there aren't too many non-blurry ones. Why? Because this station is too darn dark! I don't know what it is - there are lots of lights at Davis, but they don't seem to have...