Cool. The event that Mr. Davey refers to, "Where's the Bus 2.0: The Wait Is Over", is tomorrow, Thursday 6/3, 6pm @ Microsoft's New England R&D center, One Memorial Drive in Cambridge. … [Read more...]
Missing the bus
Matt Yglesias sees into my life:The benefits of frequent service for transit are, I think, hard to overstate. If you're trying to get into a bus that only runs once every 30 minutes then if you want to get anywhere on time you need to … [Read more...]
Violence in an enclosed space: #23 Bus riders speak out
Man, this is scary ... On MBTA Bus 23 - which winds past storefront churches, pizza shops, and boarded-up buildings - drug dealers push their wares and passengers fight over money, sometimes with knives. Last March, a teenager was … [Read more...]
Clarification: I don’t write that blog.
... different spelling, after all. But it's pretty good so far: the new Charlie on the MBTA blog is keeping track of the rollout of the new cards and the other new technological geegaws that are supposed to make our T experience so, so much … [Read more...]
Make the buses run on time
The MBTA has a new website, which at first blush is definitely an improvement over the old one. It certainly makes it easier for me to criticize this T!Let's face it: Buses suck, because buses are late. Why? Is it just unpredictable … [Read more...]