Miles In Transit

Miles In Transit is a YouTube channel offering comedic coverage of public transit, often featuring obscure, infrequent, or especially underutilized services. It is presented by Miles Taylor (born January 2000), an American YouTuber and transit planner.
Taylor grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in Greater Boston, and began writing a blog at the age of 13, detailing his experiences on Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) buses and trains. He studied urban planning at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and expanded his blog's content into long-form videos during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Biography
Miles Taylor grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. At the age of 13, he started a blog, titled "Miles on the MBTA," detailing his trips around the MBTA system. In November 2013, Taylor accompanied British transit enthusiast Adham Fisher on a record-breaking trip to visit every station on the MBTA subway and light rail network, in a Boston version of the Subway Challenge. Fisher and Taylor completed the trip in 8 hours and 5 minutes, despite multiple delays.
While in high school, Taylor participated in a summer program at Cambridge Community Television, the public-access television provider in the city of Cambridge. By the time he graduated high school, Taylor had reviewed every MBTA rail station and bus route currently in operation.
Taylor enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 2018, and shifted his blog's focus to SEPTA services with a new "Miles on SEPTA" section. As of 2024, Taylor works for the MBTA as a transit service planner. Some of Taylor's videos cover intercity transit, including Amtrak, Greyhound, and other intercity bus services. Other videos cover local transit, including buses, trolleybuses, ferries, rapid transit, and commuter rail. Most videos cover American and Canadian transit, with occasional trips outside North America.
The Miles In Transit channel features a number of frequent collaborators, including fellow University of Pennsylvania students Jackson Betz and Aleena Parenti, and Rutgers urban planning student Jeremy Zorek. Taylor and Betz compose and perform original music for the channel, and Parenti accompanies Taylor on many long-distance trips.
Taylor also advocates for simpler and easier-to-use transit fare systems. In a 2021 visit to the San Francisco Bay Area, Taylor rode the entire BART system and met with BART general manager Bob Powers to argue for more integrated fares between BART and other Bay Area transit services.

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