by Miles Taylor | May 21, 2016 | Miles on the MBTA
After the wonderful downtowns of Wakefield and Peabody, I had high hopes for Saugus Center. Unfortunately, as my friend Nathan and I stepped off an outbound 428, it was clear that it wasn’t much. Standing next to a rotary with only a few gas stations and pizza...
by Miles Taylor | Apr 9, 2016 | Miles on the MBTA
Well, this is officially the least frequent route on the MBTA – every 24 hours! In other words, the 434 only runs once a day in each direction, with one trip inbound in the morning and one outbound in the evening. I took the latter one, although things...
by Miles Taylor | Jan 24, 2016 | Miles on the MBTA
Okay, I really wish I was doing a review of the 431 right now. When the 435 reaches Lynn, it does a tiny separate loop route, the 431, and then returns outbound. I was planning to take the 431, do the loop, and then take the 435 up to the mall. Unfortunately, things...
by Miles Taylor | Jun 8, 2015 | Miles on the MBTA
All right, it’s time for another installment of Express Buses That Run Incredibly Infrequently and Are Extremely Hard to Find! In today’s episode, we have the 428, a Tobin Bridge express route that heads up to the Wakefield High School, more or less in the...
by Miles Taylor | Jan 18, 2015 | Miles on the MBTA
Well, this was a crazy one. The 429’s primary purpose seems to be serving the Square One Mall in Saugus, along Route 1. It also goes all the way down to Northgate Shopping Center, which is another reasonably popular destination. Along the way from Lynn, it takes...
