Re: "The Metro is no subway" (was Re: Malls at subway stations (Pentagon

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3 total messages Started by your pal Marc Tue, 02 Jul 1996 00:00

#199

Author: your pal Marc
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 1996 00:00

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John Whiteside (jwhitesi@concentric.net) wrote:

: really handy. Plus, the transit system seems designed to prevent people
: from the Back Bay and vicinity from ever going to Cambridge; when I didn't
: have a car, I went to Cambridge about twice in a year. 

Wouldn't the #1 bus do the job?

Marc
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Re: "The Metro is no subway"

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Author: Robert Coe
Date: Sat, 06 Jul 1996 00:00

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On 2 Jul 1996 22:49:40 -0400, marcm@panix.com (your pal Marc) wrote:
: John Whiteside (jwhitesi@concentric.net) wrote:
: : really handy. Plus, the transit system seems designed to prevent
: : people from the Back Bay and vicinity from ever going to Cambridge;
: : when I didn't have a car, I went to Cambridge about twice in a year. 
: 
: Wouldn't the #1 bus do the job?

Or the 66, or the new CT1 and CT2 "crosstown" expresses.  Let's face it:
it's the Charles River basin, not the transit system, that isolates the
Back Bay from Cambridge.
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Re: "The Metro is no subway" (was Re: Malls at subway stations (Pentagon

#192

Author: John Whiteside
Date: Sun, 07 Jul 1996 00:00

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your pal Marc (marcm@panix.com) wrote:

: Wouldn't the #1 bus do the job?

Sure, but when you live way over on the other end of the South End (i.e.
closer to Copley) it's a trudge over the Mass. Ave to catch the #1,
especially in bad weather. So I'd take the Orange line dowtown to the Red
line, and inevitably wind up standing in dank, airless, Downtown Crossing
waiting for the train for some interminable period of time. 

It's doable, but unpleasant. Now I drive. 10-15 minutes door to door. 

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