by Miles Taylor | Oct 6, 2019 | Miles on the MBTA
Welcome to the most rural route that the FRTA operates! The 41, the system’s westernmost route, runs out to a tiny town called Charlemont that I wouldn’t have heard of if the 41 didn’t end there. Also, it only runs four times per day… The...
by Miles Taylor | Oct 2, 2019 | Miles on the MBTA
Okay…time to do the 20, but in the opposite direction! Yeah, sorry if the 21 ends up being a bit redundant… Yikes, what an unflattering angle. So we headed straight up Federal Street, leaving downtown Greenfield pretty quickly in favor of more suburban...
by Miles Taylor | Sep 19, 2019 | Miles on the MBTA
Okay, “GreenLink Connector”, huh? Makes it sound like some sort of frequent Greenfield shuttle. That would be great! A route connecting up major points in Greenfield that runs frequently all day! So, I’m just checking the schedule for the 20 now:...
by Miles Taylor | Sep 15, 2019 | Miles on the MBTA
Jules rode RIPTA’s new 24x route recently. Here are his thoughts: If you caught Miles’s recent post about the fall changes at the RTAs in southern New England, you may have been surprised to learn that RIPTA was tacking on an interstate express route connecting...
by Miles Taylor | Sep 10, 2019 | Miles on the MBTA
Our FRTA saga begins! For those who don’t know, the FRTA covers Franklin County, the least dense county in Massachusetts, with a hub in Greenfield. It is a very rural system, and that makes it a really interesting one to review. We begin with its route that runs...
