by Miles Taylor | Jul 29, 2014 | Miles on the MBTA
The 86 coming back from the Toronto Zoo was by far the worst bus ride I’ve ever experienced. It’s not the route that’s the problem…no, the route’s fine, going from Kennedy Station on the Bloor Line to the Toronto Zoo. It’s the...
by Miles Taylor | Jul 28, 2014 | Miles on the MBTA
The TTC refers to the 510 as something like “streetcar rapid transit,” but I like to just refer to it as a Super Streetcar. Unlike most TTC streetcars (the 509 and 512 are the other two classified as SRT), the 510 runs in a median separated from other...
by Miles Taylor | Jul 28, 2014 | Miles on the MBTA
Interestingly, the Toronto subway technically has 24 hour service. It’s just that they’re not actually operated by subway trains. Instead, there are Blue Night bus routes that run along entire subway routes during the night. That seems like a pretty...
by Miles Taylor | Jul 26, 2014 | Miles on the MBTA
The 505 was the streetcar we used most often, as well as my favorite of them all. It’s just the variety of different neighborhoods seen along the route that makes it really interesting. This is another U-shaped line, going from Dundas West Station on the Bloor...
by Miles Taylor | Jul 23, 2014 | Miles on the MBTA
When writing the title, I thought about how easy it could be to misinterpret it as the Queen and King of streetcars. Rest assured, the streetcars are just named after the principal streets they run on; they don’t have special titles. I was excited to ride the...
