Welcome to this Blog!

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Hey everyone!

I'm Patrick, also known as Pattyrick, and welcome to my blog! Here I plan on posting a bunch of stuff related to transit in the Greater Toronto Area. This blog is the 'Miles in Transit' blog, whose author documented every MBTA bus route on the system, as well as every station. That is an eventual goal here as well! If you have any content suggestions, please let me know!

Patrick

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