Strangers on a train: Or, how I learned to stop griping and love the no-good, broken-down T.
November 3, 2011
It was with sadness that I first read the news about the MBTA’s planned shutdown of the Red Line north of Harvard Square on weekends. There will be buses instead. For five months. That is only going to create headaches for some 35,000 people like me each weekend, but why was I surprised? The T had broken my heart before.
Let’s get a couple things out of the way. Yes, that elusive Green Line train that never materializes is beyond… (FULL STORY)