SRTA: NB 5 (Rivet Street)

SRTA: NB 5 (Rivet Street)

We are finally done with this system! I have been continuously reviewing SRTA routes since…geez, since August???? Okay, I did not realize it’s been that long. Basically, ever since I transitioned to Miles in Transit, every “MBTA” bus review has...
SRTA: NB 6 (Shawmut/Rockdale)

SRTA: NB 6 (Shawmut/Rockdale)

At this point, I had been riding the SRTA more or less continuously for 9 hours, so as you can imagine, I was exhausted. Ergo, I wasn’t happy when for the second-to-last route, the SRTA decided to throw me this: So that’s what we’re up against. The...
SRTA: NB 3 (Dartmouth Street)

SRTA: NB 3 (Dartmouth Street)

We’re three routes away from finishing this darn system! Fittingly, our third-to-last review will be the 3, a route that calls itself “Dartmouth Street” but takes a pretty significant deviation away from it when it gets into New Bedford. “Big...
SRTA: NB 8 (Mount Pleasant)

SRTA: NB 8 (Mount Pleasant)

The NB 8 is the same bus as the North End Shuttle, with every run on this route turning into a loop on that one before coming back. I really wish they made it more obvious that they use the same bus, but marketing them as two different routes does have one advantage:...
SRTA: North End Shuttle

SRTA: North End Shuttle

I hold SRTA to a reasonably high regard in my head. I think it’s one of the better RTAs in Massachusetts. That said…the North End Shuttle is a disaster. No number, just…”North End Shuttle”. The route begins at Fieldstone Marketplace, then...