by Miles Taylor | Feb 12, 2016 | Miles on the MBTA
Welcome the MBTA’s outermost station in Massachusetts! Yes, we are truly in the wild west right here. Well…the wild west if it had multi-story buildings and a fairly busy downtown. Okay, so Fitchburg might not be a true frontier, but its gateway station is...
by Miles Taylor | Feb 11, 2016 | Miles on the MBTA
A Walmart in the middle of nowhere? Sure, what better place to start a bus? I mean, it has to be said, the Walmart stop does get ridership. And, you know, the route serves a lot between the mall and its terminus in Fitchburg. Anyway, today we’re looking at the...
by Miles Taylor | Feb 7, 2016 | Miles on the MBTA
Well, that’s a long post name. Yeah, the MART likes to put every single major destination into its route names, so they can be a bit…lengthy. It doesn’t help that I’m reviewing two different routes here. But even though the particular bus...
by Miles Taylor | Feb 5, 2016 | Miles on the MBTA
Usually when a station name has “north” (or any other direction) in it, you expect there to be a station in the center of town, as well. Unfortunately for Leominster, it’s stuck with this northern park-and-ride station. Luckily, North Leominster is a...
by Miles Taylor | Jan 31, 2016 | Miles on the MBTA
I’ve talked about a couple of RIPTA routes before under the “Service Change” moniker, but this is the first time I’ll be doing a proper review of one of their routes – and it’s a good one. The R-Line is kind of like RIPTA’s...
