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Comment by Abby
November 7, 2005 @ 6:35 pm
No, but it’s insane that there isn’t any looping train (like London’s Central line) that goes around the city. You have to go downtown to get anywhere, and it’s irritating!
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Comment by Aaron H
November 7, 2005 @ 10:17 pm
This might give you a better idea. Let’s say you lived close to work. Less than 3 miles. More than you’d want to walk in the snow or on a hot day but close enough that you want to do your part by using public transportation.
This route takes about 10 miles, requires riding 3 different lines (so 2 waiting on and changing trains). So, the option is a 45 minute walk or a 45 minute subway ride. Neither are really very practical so most people end up driving and making the problem worse.
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Comment by friendly joe
November 7, 2005 @ 11:49 pm
Don’t they have buses to connect train lines and go to spots where the trains don’t?
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Comment by Aaron H
November 7, 2005 @ 11:56 pm
Yes, but not anywhere you’d want to go. See the sort-of east/west road called Bolyston/Huntington? That road is some sort of imaginary dividing line on the city and no busses cross it.
It seems taht since most of the people who aren’t white live south/east of that road, there is no need for a single bus to join the 2 areas. All busses that operate on one side of that road will stay on that side. It’s hard to believe but it’s true.
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Comment by Abby
November 8, 2005 @ 12:01 am
It totally is. It’s insane! Orange line is seemingly handy, but then you start looking into the limitations, and they are considerable. I love JP, but it’s so NOT on the Green line, and that’s where work is and where lots of the places I’d want to go are. It’s not the most intuitive system. Aaron and I have talked a lot about this, and I really think it has to be a racial/economic problem. Noone wants people going from Roxbury/JP to Brookline, Cambridge, or anywhere northwesternish.
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Comment by friendly joe
November 8, 2005 @ 4:24 am
It must be the old “When in Rome do as the Romans do” system. Buy bikes or little mopeds or real sturdy shoes. Good luck whichever way you go. Just try not to get stressed out over it. Relax and enjoy. Bostonians have apparently been doing it for years. Remember that they tossed really good tea into the harbor over there. Sturdy lot those folk. And the city even has that musical fruit named after them. The Boston Baked Bean. What a town!
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Comment by Len Cleavelin
November 8, 2005 @ 10:09 am
Aaron and I have talked a lot about this, and I really think it has to be a racial/economic problem. Noone wants people going from Roxbury/JP to Brookline, Cambridge, or anywhere northwesternish.
I’m afraid you may be more correct than you realize.
The last few years I lived in the St. Louis area, I lived in St. Charles County, the northwestern suburbs of St. Louis. At the time, there was an election to approve a tax levy to finance an extension of the metro St. Louis Metro-Link light rail system into St. Charles County. The levy proposition was defeated in St. Charles County (it had to pass by simple majorities in St. Louis City, St. Louis County and St. Charles County in order to be approved) when St. Charles county area municipal officials actually spoke at town meetings in the county, telling voters “we don’t want this, or else poor” (i.e., black) “people in St. Louis will come up to rob us and burglarize our homes.”
A truly disgusting event in the history of the area; I was glad to move out shortly after that.
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Comment by Len Cleavelin
November 7, 2005 @ 1:32 pm
Um, is there a city ordinance forbidding you to walk from the T station to the museum?