by Miles Taylor | Apr 11, 2015 | Miles on the MBTA
I’ve been to Lechmere. I’ve been to Dudley. I’ve been to Prudential, for heaven’s sake. Yet I was unprepared for Back Bay. This is the darkest, dirtiest, scariest, and overall dingiest MBTA station I’ve ever been to. Along with two...
by Miles Taylor | Mar 21, 2015 | Miles on the MBTA
Malden Center is the undisputed hub of the northern Orange Line. The subway station is accompanied by a huge number of buses, as well as a Commuter Rail station. It’s also elevated! However, brutalist architecture is very present here…uh-oh. The Orange...
by Miles Taylor | Feb 20, 2015 | Miles on the MBTA
UPDATE 4/8/2019: Yeah, this station’s called Landsdowne now. Nothing else has changed, so I’m just gonna keep the review as is. Carry on. This station’s kinda weird. Tucked away behind a parking lot on Brookline Ave, Yawkey was originally opened just...
by Miles Taylor | Feb 7, 2015 | Miles on the MBTA
Every Braintree branch station was originally opened with some form of parking (Quincy Center’s garage has since closed, but the point still stands). For the more northerly stations, the parking lots are somewhat secondary to the neighborhoods around them. But...
by Miles Taylor | Feb 2, 2015 | Miles on the MBTA
I went to the South Shore Plaza many times when I was younger. My nana would always take me, and I have particularly vivid memories of riding the glass elevator up and down, over and over again. Visiting the Plaza again on the 236 was certainly nostalgic, and it was...
