by Miles Taylor | Jan 23, 2019 | Miles on the MBTA
At this point, I had been riding the SRTA more or less continuously for 9 hours, so as you can imagine, I was exhausted. Ergo, I wasn’t happy when for the second-to-last route, the SRTA decided to throw me this: So that’s what we’re up against. The...
by Miles Taylor | Jan 17, 2019 | Miles on the MBTA
We’re three routes away from finishing this darn system! Fittingly, our third-to-last review will be the 3, a route that calls itself “Dartmouth Street” but takes a pretty significant deviation away from it when it gets into New Bedford. “Big...
by Miles Taylor | Jan 13, 2019 | Miles on the MBTA
The NB 8 is the same bus as the North End Shuttle, with every run on this route turning into a loop on that one before coming back. I really wish they made it more obvious that they use the same bus, but marketing them as two different routes does have one advantage:...
by Miles Taylor | Dec 24, 2018 | Miles on the MBTA
I hold SRTA to a reasonably high regard in my head. I think it’s one of the better RTAs in Massachusetts. That said…the North End Shuttle is a disaster. No number, just…”North End Shuttle”. The route begins at Fieldstone Marketplace, then...
by Miles Taylor | Dec 16, 2018 | Miles on the MBTA
Time for an SRTA route that actually goes somewhere! Today, we’ll be taking the NB 11 out of New Bedford into Fairhaven, which is…a town. That has a very deviation-filled bus route. Ouch. Not my best photo. Now, there is a very convenient bridge straight...
