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Recent Posts from Miles on the MBTA
Boston Flummox
As I continue plowing away at a Bermuda Service Change post, here's a little game that came out today called Boston Flummox. It's very simple: you're given a scrambled station name, and your job is to unscramble it. The only clue at your disposal is what line it's on....
What’s Wrong With Google Chrome?
This is what happens when I try to create or edit a blog post in Google Chrome: I'm not sure why this is happening, but I had to download Firefox to be able to write. I could use Internet Explorer, but...you know, it's Internet Explorer.
GUEST POST: Transit Tales: Red Line Rescue Mission
As I work on a monster Service Change post(s) about the Bermuda bus system, here's the blog's second guest post! This one's from a friend of mine, about a very unique experience on the Red Line... Hi, my name is Maggie and I have gone to school with Miles for 10...
Poll Update
For some reason the poll was messing with the blog, so I got rid of all of the text before it and it seems fine now. I guess I'll have to do separate result posts along with the polls. Here's the text before the poll, copied and pasted: In the last poll, exactly half...
Poll of the Week 4/19
How has the Government Center closure affected your commute?
170 (Central Square, Waltham – Dudley Square)
Third time's the charm, as they say. That certainly held true for the 170: I tried twice to catch it, and failed both times. Finally, on my third attempt, I managed to catch it. "So why couldn't you have just waited for the next one?" you may ask. Well, that's the...
Random Photos: X-treme Bunching
You may remember how in my 77 post, I talked about how the bus bunches...a lot. Well, I now have proof. I saw four 77's in a row on Mass Ave, and though one of them made it through the light before the others, I still got pictures of three of them.
10 (City Point – Copley Square via Andrew Station and BU Medical Center)
I had been eager to get my review of the 7 out quickly, which I had used to get back from City Point, but for some reason I wasn't as excited to do my way of getting there, the 10. I'm not sure why this is, but finally I'm reviewing it. Better late than never, right?...
Random Photos (Videos): A Trip Through Government Center on the Green Line
On a school trip I managed to take videos of the closed Government Center both ways on the Green Line. Keep in mind that this was a school trip, and there's a lot of chitter-chatter in the background unlike the totally empty train on the Blue Line. If the videos don't...
39 (Forest Hills Station – Back Bay Station via Huntington Ave)
I had taken the 39 once before, but I never reviewed it for some reason. I don't know why - it's the busiest bus route on the MBTA, it replaces a former trolley, and best of all, it uses articulated buses. Whatever the reason is that I didn't review it, I'm doing it...
Hynes Convention Center
I only went to Hynes Convention Center because of the stupid 1 getting stuck in traffic. I didn't know what to expect, but this station ended up being worse than horrible Prudential. The first warning sign was the entrance: there's only one of them, and it has no...
Poll of the Week 4/11
What do you like to do when you're on the train?
Aquarium
Whenever I ask one of my friends if they've ever taken the Blue Line, 99% of the time they say, "Oh, yeah, I think I took that to the aquarium once." But although I've taken the Blue Line many times, the lack of bus connections at Aquarium means I use the station very...
Random Photos: The Most Crowded Green Line Train Ever
I'm not a baseball fan by any means, so I've never taken the train on game day. But our paths coincided, and I ended up having to get squashed on a really crowded Green Line train with a bunch of rowdy, possibly drunk sports fans and a larger-than-average man whose...
Random Photos: The Green Line to Forest Hills
I noticed a sign at Forest Hills that, although it probably confuses some people, is a nice reference to the MBTA's past. The Green Line platform is still there, though, and it's where the 39 bus boards.