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NO MORE HITTING PEOPLE ON THE TRAIN PLEASE

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted January 2, 2019 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dear Reader

It’s a striking visual, somehow awful and hilarious at once, the latter mainly because the behavior of the perpetrator is so damn outrageous.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dear Reader Tagged With: MBTA, New York, punch, subway, train, transit

PUBLIC TRANSIT IN BOSTON HASN’T GOTTEN VERY FAR IN 130 YEARS

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted July 17, 2018 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston

We pulled more than 1,000 words from the episode’s transcript, replaced (a minimal number of) dated terms like “horses” with more neutral or contemporary ones, and excerpted it below for you to have a good laugh (and/or cry) as you read this on an un-air-conditioned Red Line on the hottest day of the summer.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston Tagged With: American Experience, Boston History, congestion, Dirty Old Boston, history, MBTA, shortcuts, subway, throwback, traffic

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