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Recent Posts from Miles on the MBTA
Service Change: NYC, Part 7 – The F, G, N, Q, and R (Including the Highest Elevated Train Station in the World)
"Gosh, Miles, why would you put so many lines in a single post?" Well, blog reader, it pays to check the MTA website beforehand to see what service changes (no pun intended) are in effect on weekends. As you'll see in the post, we ended up taking a lot of pointless...
Service Change: NYC, Part 6 – The Q44 (Between Jamaica, Queens, and Bronx Park South)
As you may be able to tell, this is a long route. The Bronx Zoo to Jamaica is a pretty large distance, and therefore gets a lot of ridership that necessitates using articulated buses. The buses are fairly new and nice, yet they still don't have automatic...
Service Change: NYC, Part 5 – The J (Nassau Street Local)
Though it was elevated almost the whole way, this was not a very nice ride. We went through some pretty bad neighborhoods on the J that were really badly maintained: graffiti, abandoned buildings, total wreckages of buildings. There was a nice view over the...
Service Change: NYC, Part 4 – Jamaica Station
This was such a cool station that I decided to dedicate an entire post to it! Jamaica is the hub of the Long Island Railroad, has a connection with the Airtrain to JFK Airport, and has a subway station (with the overly long name of Sutphin Boulevard - Archer Ave - JFK...
Service Change: NYC, Part 3 – The 7 (Flushing Local)
When Googling which New York subway line is the most scenic, I ended up on some forum. Everyone said to ride either the 7 to Flushing or the F/G to Smith/9 Streets, and we decided to do the 7 (though we did Smith/9 Streets on my more recent trip to New York - post on...
Service Change: NYC, Part 2 – The E, S, 4, and 6
We took some interesting elevated lines on our trip to New York, but we also took a lot of underground lines. This is a post that covers all of the trips we made in the boring subterranean world. Coming into Penn Station from Amtrak, we did the exact same E to 6 trip...
Random Photos: Portal of Power
I figured I'd get one more post out before going to New York this weekend - again. I haven't even written about my subway rides from the last trip, and we plan to take some more on this one. As you can see, I'm really on top of things. But anyway, this was taken from...
Service Change: NYC, Part 1 – Amtrak’s Northeast Regional
Let's be honest: assuming there's no traffic, driving is both quicker and cheaper than taking the train to New York. But there often is traffic, and that can be pretty stressful. Flying is also stressful, what with security and the fact that it's a pain to get to...
Bonus Review: 83 (Broadway @ Felton Street – Rindge Ave)
I know I should be working on my New York posts, but high school started last week so I've been pretty busy. I did want to write about this interesting bus, though. Normally I just walk to Harvard from the Rindge and Latin and take the train home, but I decided to...
Assembly – First Day!
I did an excursion to the first MBTA station to open in almost 30 years with my friend today, and I took quite a few pictures. I'm not going to do a proper review yet, since the station isn't fully completed (they're still working on a second entrance), but here are...
95 (West Medford or Arlington Center – Sullivan Square Station via Mystic Ave)
I've made it clear that I really hate those neighborhoods with all those fast food restaurants and auto shops that all have really big parking lots out front. They usually come up for somewhat short periods in comparison with the rest of the route. But not the 95,...
Service Change: Montpelier – The 82 (Montpelier Hospital Hill)
Though our hotel was right near Burlington's 1 bus, we ended up taking a ride on one of Montpelier's buses. See, we were coming back from Burlington and decided to stop off at Vermont's capital to walk around. I picked up a bus schedule at the visitor's center, and we...
326 (West Medford – Haymarket Station via Playstead Road, High Street, Medford, and I-93)
The Commuter Rail is always quicker than the bus, there's no doubt about that. But this is the first time the Commuter Rail is also cheaper than the bus. Yes, it costs $2.10 to get to West Medford on the Commuter Rail from North Station, a quick walk from...
9 (City Point – Copley Square via Broadway Station)
I'm going to be such a hypocrite in this review. I gave the 5 a really lousy score in part because there were only seven people that rode that bus. The 9 also had seven riders, but buses going back towards City Point would be packed, so its higher score will be...
5 (City Point – McCormack Housing via Andrew Station)
Back in Boston! What kind of crazy bus have I got in mind? Maybe an I-90 express bus? How about a really long route going way out into the suburbs? Or perhaps a crazy route with tons of twists and turns? Nope. Today we'll be looking at... the 5. This is a very short...