by Miles Taylor | Dec 10, 2014 | Miles on the MBTA
When I found out I wouldn’t be able to get driven to piano lessons, I had to find a way to get there via public transit. I ended up with the following three options: This weird Alewife shuttle thing to a housing development called Windsor Village, meant for...
by Miles Taylor | Oct 19, 2014 | Miles on the MBTA
“Gosh, Miles, why would you put so many lines in a single post?” Well, blog reader, it pays to check the MTA website beforehand to see what service changes (no pun intended) are in effect on weekends. As you’ll see in the post, we ended up taking a...
by Miles Taylor | Oct 13, 2014 | Miles on the MBTA
As you may be able to tell, this is a long route. The Bronx Zoo to Jamaica is a pretty large distance, and therefore gets a lot of ridership that necessitates using articulated buses. The buses are fairly new and nice, yet they still don’t have...
by Miles Taylor | Oct 12, 2014 | Miles on the MBTA
Though it was elevated almost the whole way, this was not a very nice ride. We went through some pretty bad neighborhoods on the J that were really badly maintained: graffiti, abandoned buildings, total wreckages of buildings. There was a nice view over the...
by Miles Taylor | Oct 12, 2014 | Miles on the MBTA
This was such a cool station that I decided to dedicate an entire post to it! Jamaica is the hub of the Long Island Railroad, has a connection with the Airtrain to JFK Airport, and has a subway station (with the overly long name of Sutphin Boulevard – Archer Ave...
