by Miles Taylor | Dec 23, 2019 | Miles on the MBTA
Day two of new MBTA routes, and we’re heading down to Braintree to ride the first 226 ever! Oh wait…the first trip leaves before the first Red Line train gets there. Huh, okay, hang on… Day two of new routes, and we’re heading down to Braintree...
by Miles Taylor | Aug 16, 2019 | Miles on the MBTA
There have been too many openings this week! First the new Orange Line cars, and now, after a year and a half of Yankee shuttles, Wollaston has finally reopened. If you don’t feel like reading the whole post, I’ll just say that it’s a great station...
by Miles Taylor | Apr 22, 2018 | Miles on the MBTA
I sprinted out of my house at 4:17 AM. I arrived at the empty main street…no cars going in either direction. Well, Sam said to wait at an inbound bus stop, so I headed over to the closest one. No cars coming. *BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP*!!!!! A vehicle...
by Miles Taylor | Feb 5, 2018 | Miles on the MBTA
It’s the Saturday before Halloween. We’re riding a bus route around a college campus in the late evening. Oh boy, this should be fun… Thanks for being slow! Hot of the heels of our Evening Van trip, Jaret, Nathan, and I needed to get back to...
by Miles Taylor | Feb 3, 2018 | Miles on the MBTA
Nathan was working at Harvard for a while, and one of the perks of that position was access to their Evening Van Service, an Uber-like minibus that runs around the Harvard area from 7 PM to 3 AM. We were looking at its service area on the app to try to find the...