by Miles Taylor | Mar 3, 2018 | Miles on the MBTA
We’ve got a theme going on with these 50s routes: direct, frequent lines to the northwestern parts of Providence. Yeah, they’re boring, but we gotta do them. The 55 has a few more deviations than the ones we’ve seen before… The bus at Kennedy...
by Miles Taylor | Mar 2, 2018 | Miles on the MBTA
Here’s another frequent, direct RIPTA route serving northern Providence. Indeed, this time we’re starting in North Providence, a separate town entirely! The 57 is the most direct route into Providence proper, so let’s see what it’s like. The...
by Miles Taylor | Mar 1, 2018 | Miles on the MBTA
It’s always nice to come back to a system that actually knows what it’s doing. The RIPTA runs the 56 every 15 minutes, which really is awesome. Though Josh and I rode it on a Saturday, when its service drops to half-hourly, it was clear that this is a...
by Miles Taylor | Feb 25, 2018 | Miles on the MBTA
In preparation for this review, I conducted an “extensive” “interview” with someone at my school who used to live in Shrewsbury. I asked her about the throngs of people that surely use the amazing 15 to get to the booming metropolis of...
by Miles Taylor | Feb 24, 2018 | Miles on the MBTA
Let’s just keep on going around the loop we started with the 31! The 16 is the eastern side of the two-route loop, and it’s got a few more deviations up its sleeve. Let’s take this back into Worcester. The bus at the Lincoln Mall. We headed out from...
