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Recent Posts from Miles on the MBTA
Service Change: Bermuda, Part 2 – 7 (Hamilton – Dockyard via South Shore Beaches), 8 (Hamilton – Dockyard via Middle Road), and the Hamilton Bus Terminal
I'm taking way too long with these posts. I do apologize for that. I'll be splitting what would've been part 2 into 2 parts, making a total of three. But enough about that... Having just gotten off of the Sea Express at the Dockyard, we needed to take the bus down to...
Service Change: Bermuda, Part 1 – 1 (Hamilton – St. George via Tucker’s Point and The Caves), 10 (Hamilton – St. George via Palmetto Road and Aquarium), 11 (Hamilton – St. George via Blackwatch Pass and Aquarium), and the St. George Bus Depot
My family has been going to Bermuda every year for the past 12 years. The fact that such a tropical setting exists just a two hour flight away from Boston is very enticing. We didn't go last year, instead opting for Orlando, so I was more than excited to get back to...
Poll of the Week 5/13
How should large Service Change posts be published?
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?