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Recent Posts from Miles on the MBTA
Longwood
When you have to go to the Longwood Medical Area, you have two options: take the E to Longwood Medical Area Station, or take the D to Longwood Station. You can either wait for a train that never comes, or you can grab a train that runs pretty frequently. You can...
214 (Quincy Center Station – Germantown via Sea Street and O’Brien Towers) and 216 (Quincy Center Station – Houghs Neck via Sea Street)
Why do I always make these beach trips when it's cloudy out? It happened again with the 214/216 (which run as one route on weekends), but at least it wasn't insanely foggy this time. The 214 and 216 both serve a peninsula to the east of Quincy Center, with the 214...
Random Photos: Some High Speed Amtrak Trains
I was waiting at Ruggles for a Commuter Rail train to South Station (long story, maybe I'll tell it at some point). I saw one going the other way, and it was coming in pretty fast. The driver honked the horn, and didn't seem to be slowing down. As the high-speed...
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...