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Recent Posts from Miles on the MBTA
Prudential
Prudential has a pretty grand entrance. Right in the Prudential Center, there's a nice big "T" sticking out of the wall, telling you there's a train station. The entrance itself is glass with another "T" on it. When I first saw it, I thought this station would get a...
Random Photos: A Train to Myself
I was on the train heading for Braintree, but practically everyone got off at Quincy Adams. I had the car to myself, and I took a picture. No, the bag to the right doesn't have a bomb - it's mine.
Random Photos: A Ride on Big Red
In late 2008, the MBTA took a pair of Red Line cars and removed all the seats. They called them "Big Reds," and were meant to increase passenger capacity. They later re-installed half the seats, but there are none in much of the train. I got to ride one of these cars...
712/713 (Point Shirley – Orient Heights Station via Winthrop Highlands or Winthrop Center)
There's no denying that the 439 offers a great ride. The fact that you're on a isthmus and surrounded by water makes for great views on both sides of the bus. There are some caveats, though - mainly the fact that the bus only runs five times a day, and that most of...
Transit Tales: Return of the Shuttle Buses
As you most likely know, the Longfellow Bridge has been closed on the Cambridge-bound side for a while. The work they're doing on it occasionally requires the Red Line to be closed on weekends. And you know what that means - shuttle buses! My father and I had the...
Miles on the MBTA’s First Anniversary!
I can't believe it's been a year. I remember starting out the blog and no one knew it existed. Slowly it increased in popularity, and it started showing up on random Google searches. I would always be proud when I did some random search about the MBTA and my blog...
Maverick Station Has a Second Entrance!
Who knew? One of the cons in my Maverick post was that the station seemingly only had one entrance. That's what it seems like, anyway - when you're at a train station, you naturally gravitate towards the area with a bunch of fare gates that everyone else is heading...
Random Photos: Thank You, I Am
I was riding on the Red Line, and as I was getting out I noticed the stickers on the outside of the train. One of them was an ad for beer, and then there were two tiny stickers that both said "You are beautiful." I have no idea what that's supposed to mean. I'm...
120 (Orient Heights Station – Maverick Station via Bennington Street, Jeffries Point, and Waldemar Loop)
At a party months ago, my father heard from someone that the 120 was a bus worth riding. He found out that it goes onto a big hill past a giant statue of Mother Mary that offers fantastic views of Boston. Fast forward to a few days ago, when we were finally able to...
Random Photos (Videos): Destination Kendall
This isn't that notable, but this weekend they're running shuttle buses between Kendall and Park Street on the Red Line. I just really liked how they actually reprogrammed the destination boards and automatic announcements to say "destination Kendall." There's a...
MBTA, Step Up Your Game – an Editorial
As you have probably noticed, I haven't been posting as much as I was in the last few days. Basically, school started up again and I've been busy and not able to post as often as I was able to over vacation. So yes, I will be going back to my "Supposedly Once a Week...
112 (Wellington Station – Wood Island Station via Central Ave, Mystic Mall, and Admiral’s Hill)
The 112 is a crazy mess. That's not to say it's a bad bus (not really, at least), but if you look at the interactive street map of the route on the MBTA website, you can see how many twists, turns, and detours it makes along its route. It is one of three buses that...
456 (Salem Depot – Central Square, Lynn via Highland Ave)
"456!" Shouted the driver out of the bus that said "NOT IN SERVICE." Some people started to board the bus. Racking my memory, I remembered that the 456 goes to Salem. I called my mother, got the a-OK, and was the last person to step onto the bus. "You getting on the...
426/426W (Central Square, Lynn – Haymarket or Wonderland Station via Cliftondale Square)
Once upon a time, I said I'd write a post about the 426 "at some point." When I said that, however, I had only ridden the 426W, which is the weekend version of the route - it just goes to Wonderland. The full route, which is the weekday version, runs express from Lynn...
Random Photos: Yo, Yo, Yo
I was riding an old Red Line train, and I noticed that on one of the doorways, where it says "Watch your step," someone had rubbed off the U and the R so it said "Watch yo step." I really wanted to take a picture, but I didn't have my camera with me. Luckily, the...