by Miles Taylor | Feb 9, 2018 | Miles on the MBTA
Hey, the LRTA is a thing! Yeah, I’ve made the least progress with LRTA, so it’s time to change that. Here’s the suburban 12 route from Wilmington to Lowell! Good to be on this system again! We headed out from the Wilmington Commuter Rail...
by Miles Taylor | Feb 8, 2018 | Miles on the MBTA
Oh man, I always get so excited when I do a GATRA review! How many deviations will we make? How few people will use the route? Well, the Medway T Shuttle makes no deviations…and gets lots of people. Huh. The minibus: a bright haven in the middle of the...
by Miles Taylor | Feb 7, 2018 | Miles on the MBTA
This is the mother of Commuter Rail microstations: one train in the morning and one train in the evening. Plimptonville is a tiny stop in the middle of nowhere within Walpole, and it gets the lowest ridership on the entire system. Could this be the worst station on...
by Miles Taylor | Feb 6, 2018 | Miles on the MBTA
The Franklin Line deviates to serve a housing development? WHAT IS THIS WORLD COMING TO??? Okay, okay, it’s not a deviation, it’s right there on the line. And Windsor Gardens Station actually gets great ridership considering what it’s serving....
by Miles Taylor | Feb 3, 2018 | Miles on the MBTA
Nathan was working at Harvard for a while, and one of the perks of that position was access to their Evening Van Service, an Uber-like minibus that runs around the Harvard area from 7 PM to 3 AM. We were looking at its service area on the app to try to find the...
