by Miles Taylor | Dec 6, 2014 | Miles on the MBTA
The 455 used to go all the way down to Haymarket, but during the bus massacre of July 2012 it was cut back to Wonderland. Trips to Wonderland had previously been weekend service, but now it goes there full time. That’s not to say that the cutbacks made the...
by Miles Taylor | Dec 6, 2014 | Miles on the MBTA
This route is really isolated: it’s the northernmost MBTA bus route; it only runs eight times a day; it’s one of the most expensive buses for the MBTA to run; it was on the chopping block in 2012; and it goes down a road on which not even Google Street...
by Miles Taylor | Dec 4, 2014 | Miles on the MBTA
A long time ago, on one of my very first for-fun bus trips, my father and I took the 459 up to Salem. I mentioned in that post how we got stuck up there, and a 459 back to Boston never showed up. At one point, there was a 450 that came, but for some reason I...
by Miles Taylor | Nov 20, 2014 | Miles on the MBTA
If I were to ask you if Brookline has good public transit access, you would probably say yes. After all, it has three Green Line branches serving it, providing frequent service to some pretty dense apartments. Yes, the northern part of Brookline gets pretty good...
by Miles Taylor | Nov 9, 2014 | Miles on the MBTA
“How long is that bagel gonna take?” I asked my friend, Lucy. “About 30 seconds,” she replied. We were at the Dunkin’ Donuts in Ruggles Station, where, having gotten off of the 43, Lucy said she was hungry. So here we were at a...
