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Random Photos: Boston Pops Bus
Back in Boston! This was a cool bus I spotted at Haymarket wrapped in an ad for the Boston Pops.
Service Change: NYC, Part 4 – The High Line
You've got a big, ugly, abandoned elevated track that just looks awful. What's a city to do? Well, convert it into a park. of course. That's what High Line Park is. It starts at 30th Street (though it's being extended northward) and runs parallel to 10th Ave all the...
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Service Change: NYC, Part 3 – M4 (Between Washington Heights or Fort Tyron Park (The Cloisters) and Penn Station)
Okay, Google Maps. Take me from the Met to our hotel near Penn Station. Let's see, it says to take the M4 bus rather than the subway. Well, Google Maps is always right, right? Wrong. The subway is always faster than the bus in New York. Though it was an enjoyable...
Service Change: Toronto, Part 10 – The Ones That Got Away
These are just some extra pictures that didn't have to do with the previous posts. This will be the last Service Change from my Toronto trip. Next up is the continuation of my trip to New York a while back (here's Part 1 and Part 2 - there will likely be two more...
Service Change: Toronto, Part 9 – The Shortest Ferry Ride in the World and the Toronto City Airport Shuttle Bus
The ferry ride in question happens to be from Toronto City Airport to the mainland, a distance of about 400 feet and a ride time of about 90 seconds. Short, indeed. The overall airport process at this airportwais pretty great. Security and customs seemed to go by...
Service Change: Toronto, Part 8 – The Centre and Ward’s Island Ferries
The Toronto Islands used to be a peninsula, but nature caused them to become separated from the mainland. They're now a popular place to visit for tourists, but they also have some residential areas. It's actually North America's largest urban car-free community. But...
Service Change: Toronto, Part 7 – GO Transit to Guildwood
For a while I thought that GO Transit was just a generic name. But then I found out that GO stands for Government of Ontario, turning the name into a cool acronym. I love it! We had been seeing extremely long double-decker trains running near Union Station, but I...
Service Change: Toronto, Part 6 – 86 Scarborough and 190 Scarborough Center Rocket
The 86 coming back from the Toronto Zoo was by far the worst bus ride I've ever experienced. It's not the route that's the problem...no, the route's fine, going from Kennedy Station on the Bloor Line to the Toronto Zoo. It's the people that were on it. We got on...
Service Change: Toronto, Part 5 – 510 Spadina and 511 Bathurst Streetcars
The TTC refers to the 510 as something like "streetcar rapid transit," but I like to just refer to it as a Super Streetcar. Unlike most TTC streetcars (the 509 and 512 are the other two classified as SRT), the 510 runs in a median separated from other traffic. That...
Something I Totally Forgot to Mention About the Toronto Subway
Interestingly, the Toronto subway technically has 24 hour service. It's just that they're not actually operated by subway trains. Instead, there are Blue Night bus routes that run along entire subway routes during the night. That seems like a pretty efficient way to...
Service Change: Toronto, Part 4 – 505 Dundas and 506 Carlton Streetcars
The 505 was the streetcar we used most often, as well as my favorite of them all. It's just the variety of different neighborhoods seen along the route that makes it really interesting. This is another U-shaped line, going from Dundas West Station on the Bloor Line to...
Service Change: Toronto, Part 3 – 501 Queen and 504 King Streetcars
When writing the title, I thought about how easy it could be to misinterpret it as the Queen and King of streetcars. Rest assured, the streetcars are just named after the principal streets they run on; they don't have special titles. I was excited to ride the Toronto...
Service Change: Toronto, Part 2 – The Scarborough RT and the Bloor-Danforth Subway
So what does RT stand for? The other lines are all referred to as "subways," so the Scarborough RT must be different. RT must stand for rapid transit, right? What else could it be? But all the other lines are rapid transit, too... Anyway, the Scarborough RT is...
Transit Tales: To Dog or Not to Dog?
I've been taking the T to my summer job, and I wanted to share this little experience I had one day. It was rush hour, so it was of course absolute madness - I was holding onto a pole for dear life. I felt something hairy against my leg, and looking down I saw a big...