When a bus stop stops being a bus stop

by | Sep 13, 2013 | transportation, urbanism

You may remember back in June when I reported that the MBTA was eliminating a couple of stops on the number 1 bus line, I wondered what would happen to the space freed up. Well, I’ve been watching those stops and seen no changes. Still no parking, still marked...

It's fun to stay at the MBTA

by | Aug 30, 2013 | transportation, urbanism

I was not looking forward to my trip to the Charlie Card Store. I was prepared to beg, threaten, maybe even bribe my way through what I was certain would be a Dantean, Kafkaesque, Orwellian, and probably Quixotic* quest to repair or replace my expired Charlie Card. I...

Now you T it, now you don't

by | Aug 28, 2013 | technology, transportation, urbanism

Do you know what you were doing five years ago today? Well, according this this blog, I was in Santa Monica, but according to the MBTA, I was unboxing a brand new Charlie Card. I know this because today, five years later, that Charlie card, suddenly and without...

Bus stop, T woes, stop goes, speed grows

by | Jun 18, 2013 | transportation, urbanism

Via the estimable newsmachers at UniversalHub, a report that the MBTA is eliminating some stops on 15 of the busiest bus lines in the city this summer. The idea is that snipping out some redundant stops and refurbishing others will reduce end-to-end trip time and cut...

Palimpsest

by | May 8, 2013 | photo, reading & writing, transportation

palimpsest |ˈpalimpˌsest| noun a manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing but of which traces remain. • something reused or altered but still bearing visible traces of its earlier form:...