by Miles Taylor | May 12, 2018 | Miles on the MBTA
Ohhh…we get to go back to…Gardner! And ride a really long, deviation-filled bus route around the whole…city. My…favorite……place………. YAY! GARDNER!!!! The bus was very nice, at least. It was that rear door-less...
by Miles Taylor | May 11, 2018 | Miles on the MBTA
The Devens Regional Shuttle recently celebrated its one-year anniversary, and MART threw a lovely party for it at one of its stops, with free swag to boot! I didn’t attend the party, and I have no idea how many people attended it, but my guess is not too many....
by Miles Taylor | May 10, 2018 | Miles on the MBTA
Surely Shirley can’t be that bad! Great, I’ve gotten that joke out of the way. Andddddd…that’s it! Shirley has one very very very small platform. Quite very small. However, it’s entirely occupied by a shelter that’s actually...
by Miles Taylor | Apr 14, 2017 | Miles on the MBTA
Poor ol’ Gardner is a really isolated city for transit, and there’s no easy way of getting from there to Boston…well, until Wachusett Station opened, that is! And sure, that station still uses the “drive and park” mindset that all modern...
by Miles Taylor | Apr 12, 2017 | Miles on the MBTA
“ITC” stands for “Intermodal Transit Center,” right? I mean, what the heck else could it stand for? The “MART ITC Gardner” has to be the central bus hub for all of the system’s Gardner routes! That’s gotta be it, right?...