by David | Oct 4, 2009 | photo, transportation, urbanism
I set out last week from North Station, taking the commuter rail with legions of downtown office-workers headed home to the suburbs like Don Draper. But wasn’t headed for scotch and family, I was taking my first car-free trip to the DeCordova museum for the...
by David | Jul 14, 2009 | design, transportation, urbanism
On the occasion of Fête Nationale, or Bastille Day, I’m going to write about a particularly European thing, the man bag. Like most public transit commuters – or really most travelers of any kind – I’m always looking for the most efficient,...
by David | Jun 26, 2008 | culture, economics, media, reading & writing, transportation
Until the phone carriers and MBTA collude to spoil it, my daily subway commute is the only time that I’m completely unavailable to the outside world. No phone calls, no email, no social networks. At only three stops, the journey is too brief to really get into a...
by David | May 6, 2008 | transportation, urbanism
Via ever-alert procrastinator N comes this bit on Environmental Graffiti: America’s Most Pedestrianized Cities. Much to my shock, Boston is rated #1, with 13% of the population walking to work. I’m not sure what definition of city or metro area they used,...
by David | Apr 5, 2007 | culture, eating, transportation, working
I normally wouldn’t bother with something like this, but the timing was just too good. As reported in the Boston Herald, a stretch of route 495 turned blood red yesterday, adding yet another hazard to daily gauntlet of Boston-area commuting. Like Marienhoff...
