ALT Approximately 10 people line up to board an orange bus operated by MeVa, Merrimack Valley Transit. The bus has "Let's go ¡Vamos!" written on it, and its digital destination sign reads "1 FREE-GRATIS".
ALT At night, two passengers prepare to board a white-painted bus reading "METRO RUNS ON CLEAN NATURAL GAS" in teal along the top. The digital destination sign reads "1 PTC - AMTRAK".
ALT An MBTA bus is seen pulled over on the side of the street in Harvard Square, Cambridge. The rear digital route sign reads "1".
5: Total number of public transit systems taken if you add in BSOOB and South Portland, but this feels much less amusing somehow...
ALT A gray and forest green battery electric bus identified as "Transit" with an image of an AC power cable and plug running across the side. On the side of the road, signs read "WEST 98" and "SPEED LIMIT 25".
ALT Building in a similar form to a single-story, single-family home with a gabled roof/attic reads "South Portland Transit Hub". The building has large glass windows on all sides and is well-lit in the night.
3: Number of companies that have sent me promo emails with an American football 🏈 emoji in the subject. It's not even noon yet.
Today must be...football day! #SuperBowl
7: Number of green lights in a row while 🚴 cycling just now, letting me get from my home bike station in East Cambridge to Mass Ave/Beacon St in 9 minutes flat before stopping at a red light. #Boston#mobility
2: Number of automobiles parked this morning on the newly-added parking lane at Park Plaza/Charles and Boylston Sts.
ALT Two columns of cars are parallel-parked, facing the same direction, on a city street. The leftmost column is parked in the car parking lane between the automobile lanes and the bike lanes. The rightmost column is parked within the bike lanes.
4: Number of yikesy minutes between seeing, in Downtown #Boston:
(a) a car driver run a red light straight, and
(b) another car driver turn the wrong way onto a one-street.
8: Number of U-Haul vehicles observed while driving on 93 through Boston this afternoon.
2: Number of U-Hauls with trailer additions tacked on.
#AllstonChristmas
245: Number of minutes spent aboard an airplane today.
47: Number of minutes spent in the air today.
(This is only Reason #2022 why air travel is terrible.)
74: Number of passengers aboard today’s 18:40 #MBTA shuttle ferry from East Boston to Long Wharf.
Sailing time was 10 minutes flat.
ALT Foreground shows a ferry dock on Boston Harbor, with ferry docked bearing the MBTA logo. Downtown Boston appears in the background.
ALT Top deck of a ferry sailing on Boston Harbor. A large throng of passengers are onboard, not hmm sitting and standing. A US flag appears at the end of the ferry. Downtown Boston high rise buildings appear in the background.