Something I forgot to mention in the video: the T has also made the Commuter Rail up to Zone 2 effectively free, added a Haverhill Line stop at Oak Grove, and added a Providence Line stop at Forest Hills. Additionally, you can get a 30-day Bluebikes pass for free! So there are other nice mitigations they've made - that Bluebikes one in particular is fantastic.

chicks dig bus foamers obviously 10:23

The bonus tufts shuttle was legitimately the most I've laughed in a 30 minute period in a long time

"This is the last stop" "You don't go to Chinatown?" "Oh" jesus christ

From most reports, the buses aren't as bad as some people thought. At least right now, they're clean and comfortable. They're slower and don't necessarily stop at the most convenient spot, but they're free!

This video was hilarious. It's amazing how Boston struggles with bustitution. This looks worse than the Longfellow bridge reconstruction. Like you said hopefully it results in a better Orange Line.

You need to come to the Minnesota State Fair sometime, Miles! The transit center there is an amazing mix of the different Twin Cities transit agencies, random coach buses, and pretty-old transit buses that just have paper signs with the overhead sign stuck on something completely random (there's an old Houston Metro bus they've been using for years that still rotates between "Special" and "Seasons Greetings" with some old signage inside.) The buses feed into all the different park and rides, many of which are only active for the 12 days of the fair. It's a transit spotter's paradise!

Glad you got to see the ex-SEPTA bus roaming up there! A friend of mine recently purchased an ex-Metro Transit (Minneapolis) D60. Good to know another one is still roaming out there! I'm coming up after the Medford branch of the GLX opens (finally) so I can get some quick video shots along both branches (as well as a run to cover some stops on the Mattapan line). Hoping it doesn't get pushed back any further!

I really appreciate Jordan's perspective. Every body deserves a comfortable seat, and to not feel shamed for their size! Plane seats are especially awful

I love how half the time you're just so confused and Jeremy is laughing like a goblin in the background. Gotta love this organized chaos

Post-orange line opening update: the Orange line is now somehow twice as slow as before the work. It seems like they weren’t able to finish on time and now there are more slow zones. Thanks MBTA… would’ve been nice if this entire situation could have been avoided if you were actually properly funded and managed.

I'm a proud green-line rider. Yes it may explode, or crash into itself, but it's always there.

Life is like the orange line shuttle, you never know what you're gonna get.

TTC up here in Canada is notorious for shutting down sections of the core subway network for construction and upgrades on weekends. It usually looks like a several dozens of buses queued up at stations and intersections along the subway route. It is a notorious mess because the largely suburban Toronto City Council doesn't want to block off streets for car traffic even on weekends...even when hundreds of buses are supposed to carry thousands of subway riders. But yeah, this is still a lesser mess than whatever that was. Bus lanes are great and necessary, but having 30 minute headways for a rapid transit substitute in the city proper is truly mental

Coach buses subbing in for closed subway lines is like a fricken commuter line or amtrak on thr subway/light rail. "Oh good two equivalently terrible agencies" I've never heard of that one before, and I will prolly use it somehow.

I love how people were dropping one by one until it was just Miles and Jeremy. and yes, #FatPeopleMatter

You guys are awesome, this was so entertaining and informative. And that bus only lane on the Gilmore bridge was a nice thought but in practice, completely ignored in rush hour traffic. You just can’t expect 6 lanes of traffic coming from all different directions to pour into 1 lane that is already gridlocked from end to end.

I rode the shuttle yesterday from Forest Hills to Copley. The bus was very nice (a Prevost X3-45) but the trip was so slow. Going through Amory and Lamartine streets wasn't bad but once we got out of Ruggles it was a lot of stop and go due to heavy traffic on Columbus Avenue. Usually if I take the Orange Line it takes 12-15 minutes tops, but the shuttle was 30 minutes. Tips for the MBTA... - Run an express shuttle between Forest Hills, Ruggles and Copley, using Columbus Avenue. - Amory and Lamartine Streets should have an MBTA route, even if it's to Jackson Square.

3:29 - glad I took a moment to use the KZfaq-friendly version of what I was about to say! lol

Cought the stream that day! Glad to see a video of it. You have a way of making janky transit really entertaining.

You guys are so funny! Great coverage and seem vv knowledgeable about transit. Good stuff!

I am calling it now, there won’t be a better orange line. WMATA has been doing shutdowns for a few years and there’s still little sign of fixing all the issues. I bet they’re focusing more on patch jobs instead of wholesale rebuilding and reconstruction, thought maybe the MBTA can prove me wrong. Anyways WMBTA is real.

5:03 Oh the pain when there is the possibility that a bus you need to get on is JUST ABOUT to leave. Worse when they just zip off.

I predict that after this Orange Line shuttle bus assignment is finally finished, these older tour/charter buses will definitely be sent to the scrapyard? When the Orange line returns, it will be like orange juice, giving riders a full day’s worth of energy??

This is amazingly funny and entertaining, thank you all so much!

Took my first ever trip to Boston this past May and booked my Airbnb near the Oak Grove station, thinking I would have an easy and wonderful time learning how to use MBTA to get to and from the city. Then I show up and find out the Orange Line is down and replaced by buses for the entirety of my trip. Devastating nightmare.

The Metro MN one was pretty comfortable, was super surprised to see it but it was pretty cool!

Thanks for the plug, jakwelline’s foamer fun- elevators, escalators and more appreciates it

I have rewatched this video an absurd amount of times.

Need this content because I would like a major ass telling the bus driver I’m going to whole way round even though the bus is going there anyway. Also interesting to see the variety of the busses as I’ve enjoyed cycling around the parking at Forrest glen where the red line shuttles are parking and seeing the many different busses.

Yet another amazing video I presume!

What a weird twist! never would have expected a bus but at the same time, I might be the only one.

Forget it Miles, it's Chinatown!

The first video before the live stream of it!!!

Truthfully I enjoyed these shuttles when they were around I didn't mind it one but it was much more smoother than the orange line I can say that if they left the orange line shutdown down for even longer I wouldn't complain I enjoyed all the buses it was so cool to see all the different buses from the different states lending a helping hand

It's funny how bad the orange line shuttles are... but hey, at least it's free along with the commuter rail within the city. Hopefully the construction ends with a better orange line! The MBTA is definitely in need of some improvements.

I need to check out the weird wee-hours shuttle... Thanks for making me aware!

1:28 that's the funniest thing I've ever seen

6:26 “Wait I think the guy is telling him ‘No this isn’t the bus’. All he had to do was pull over and tell the person ‘No this isn’t the bus’ then we’re screwed.” …The logic of this bus driver is so bad it’s hilarious.

It’s BACK! WooHoo!!!!

This is funny to look back and laugh at

I was watching trains at Wellington when Miles was at Forest Hills.

Gotta admit, from what I’ve seen, this is probably the most confusing diversion I’ve seen. Eh, what do you expect lol

At least you have bustitution. On the MTA LIRR, they shut our trains down on weekends on the Main Line with NO SHUTTLE BUSES at all!

At first I wasn't sure which transit system this would be, but then I remembered that only part of the Washington Metro orange line is shut down. I didn't know about the T shutdown. I also don't understand why the first bus skipped a bunch of stations. Was it an express from Forest Hills to Copley? Maybe I missed something. The orange line used to be my commuting line when I lived in Malden (1979-81). It was pretty new then, but we still had a shutdown of the northern end of the line. I lived on Highland Av. and we had substitute buses taking us to Wellington. Here in Drexel Hill, PA, the Media and Sharon Hill trolleys were replaced by buses for 10 days starting when we moved here (last month). We were told to expect delays up to 15 minutes. For a service that mostly runs every half hour, that means basically that you never know when the bus is coming. By the way, we rode out to Media last week and nobody got on or off at Paper Mill Rd.

miles in transit and alan fisher released their boston videos on the same day

Gunther Buses in Massachusetts?! (I live in MD and I have been on them)

you need to use the "know your streets miles" more often.

is the Orange line shut so as to iron out speed restrictions? and what must've happened to the recent Green line extension?

One time I had to ride a shuttle bus replacing a section of the DC metro yellow line that was under repairs. It was a confusing mess. Each bus was an "express line" to one of the four stations that was closed. So if you got on the wrong bus you were screwed. Quite a few people got hot under the collar trying to make sense of this mess. The bus itself was nice but it was going painfully slow crawling along at maybe two kilometers an hour in bumper to bumper DC rush hour traffic. I thought I would never get off that bloody bus. It took over an hour to get to the end of the line. A train would only have taken a few minutes. That's why DC built the metro in the first place. I don't know how Boston handles shut downs of the trains but DC is notorious for shutting down parts of the metro and replacing them with busses with little to no warning. I hope I never get caught up in something like that again.

Hi Miles I have a question but it's no regards to this video. How do you get those Amtrak tickets cheap for 19 bucks. And I'd also like to do an interview with you on your transit journey. I'm a fan of public transportation myself

Oh my god I had entirely forgotten the Maryland flag counter

The way Bunker Hill Community College and the attached station are laid out, with Rutherford and Austin St, means that northbound it does stop basically as close as it can to the station. But if anything it's *more* convenient, because this way it's stopping up against the back of the Whole Foods parking lot, which gives better pedestrian access into Charlestown - in regular times, both Community College and Sullivan are awkwardly placed for those trying to get into Charlestown, arguably a main service area for both. Of course, the southbound shuttle stops on the side closer to Community College, so you do have to take the pedestrian overpass (or cross the perilous Rutherford/Austin/Gilmore Bridge intersection) to get to/from Charlestown. Makes me long for the days of the Elevated through Thompson Square lmao

3:00 they went like balls to the wall full foamer lmao

Well this is certainly better than the Yellow and Blue line shutdown in DC, where they had bus lanes already built for Metroway and didn’t use them. Supposedly it’s because drivers needed special training for the signal priority system for whatever reason, but the system doesn’t even work for the bus route that uses the lanes anyways. And they wouldn’t put detection loops to get the system to work before the shuttles started running. Metroway is its own joke of a “BRT” system anyways, but I won’t rant about its million problems here.

lol i love yall!!

They threw together the Chinatown route because people complained

Why is the shuttle split in two?

Miles, advice, BUY A SKELLITON KEY , it will unlock the Lav / Toilet.

That transit system looks crazy. They don't publish schedules?

✨Chantals✨

MINNEAPOLIS, ST PAUL REPRESENT!!!!

Any RTS buses running in the Shuttles

It's bad. They should have got smaller busses that skip stations going stop to stop keeps them in traffic and take forever

he said the word!!!!11! he said the stroad thing!! miles is based holy frick

The definition of this video is confusion lol

$37 Million at work, kids. It’s so bad, it’s funny.

wow this is a shitshow. I'm glad i only have to deal with ttc line 1 shuttle buses every few weekends lol

3:07 wmata is terrible?

Man I hate the T this entire thing is a meme

Choo choo, I'm a train

I'm at the point where I just don't care, I want the T to be bad in some form just to see people complain, I don't want the OL to be better when it comes back. I'd be great if it was better, but I love seeing the complaints now, BRING ON THE TEARS!

another jeremy and miles classic.

HERE IS WHAT DID NOT HAPPEN BUT THOUGHT HAPPENED @10:16 GIRLS - "Are you a vlogger?" MILES - "You want to be in the video?" GIRLS - "Wait so what are you doing?" MILES - "It has to do with buses" GIRLS - "Wait are you from BangBus?" MILES - "..... BangBus? Wait what? What is.... No! No No No." GIRLS - "Okay bye!!!!" MILES - "I am so confused right now. Why did they ask me that?"

@Miles in Transit - I don't like rail replacement bus (I only use it when I have to) , because it´s slower , more changes , more difficuilt to find & not suitable for bikes + wheelchairs ... Note: USA outlets (like in this bus) are literally still as shocking as European outlets 100+ years ago (even the countries of the former Soviet-Union fixed this since late 1990s in most homes , adopting the current German standards) ... OMG it seems that your long haired buddy (BTW I as a male have long hair too, sometimes even 5+ cm longer^^) @ 0:50 belongs to the ones who love being lied to by the politicians ( & their meat-drones), because the black toy mask he uses (in blind beLIEving) is as useless as a floorcloth against ANY disease (I am educated in this stuff by the (compulsary) military 15+ years ago & by a job 8+ years ago) ... At least he shaved very well @ 0:04 to make a REAL mask work ( = Full face mask with at least a reputable brand FFP3-filter) work ( & I like it clean shaven) , this is the only thing he did right in using breathing protection , if there is a dangerous disease that you can breath in he would be dead since 2020 ( & the Bearded ones would be dead anyway with ANY mask) ... the other guy @ 3:33 seem to beLIEve this lies as well ... And your voluminous guy @ 4:39 should really loose weight _in his own interst_ , belive me I had my fattest time in 2020 (95Kg instead of ~65 Kg at the military) & after loosing weight again I feel much better (TIP, cut out: Wheat (replace with Roggen) , sugar (far less sugary drinks + sweets) , all sugar-replacements , GMOs (if possible in contaminated USA) , Fluoride (if possible in contaminated USA) , generally junkfood like McDonalds & of course to much eating ... at least he doesn't own a car , because a car is a big reason why you gain wight)...

What’s with the mask?