by Miles Taylor | Apr 18, 2014 | Miles on the MBTA
You may remember how in my 77 post, I talked about how the bus bunches…a lot. Well, I now have proof. I saw four 77’s in a row on Mass Ave, and though one of them made it through the light before the others, I still got pictures of three of...
by Miles Taylor | Apr 18, 2014 | Miles on the MBTA
On a school trip I managed to take videos of the closed Government Center both ways on the Green Line. Keep in mind that this was a school trip, and there’s a lot of chitter-chatter in the background unlike the totally empty train on the Blue Line. If the videos...
by Miles Taylor | Apr 10, 2014 | Miles on the MBTA
I’m not a baseball fan by any means, so I’ve never taken the train on game day. But our paths coincided, and I ended up having to get squashed on a really crowded Green Line train with a bunch of rowdy, possibly drunk sports fans and a larger-than-average...
by Miles Taylor | Apr 10, 2014 | Miles on the MBTA
I noticed a sign at Forest Hills that, although it probably confuses some people, is a nice reference to the MBTA’s past. The Green Line platform is still there, though, and it’s where the 39 bus boards.
by Miles Taylor | Apr 10, 2014 | Miles on the MBTA
How was I to know there was a ball game? I thought taking the 1 from Mass Ave Station would be faster than taking the train, but I was certainly wrong. I had to wait about 15 minutes for a bus, and it was packed when it got to the stop. Then it was stuck in a...