Resistance is futile on the T
By adamg - Thu, 10/09/2008 - 7:03pm.
Whalehead King discovers that the acronym for our four subway lines is BORG.
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Alternatively...
it could be GROB, BROG, or GORB.
BORGS
It's really BORGS, not BORG... Whalehead left out the Silver Line.
Maybe he was just counting subways
And not bus lines. :-).
Maybe so, and yet...
...at the T, they honestly do consider Silver Line Waterfront part of the subway system. It's not just a PR thing for the public. :-)
Silver Line Waterfront
is also considered a subway line for fare-collection purposes.
If it honks like a bus ...
... And runs on tires like a bus, and bunches up in groups like a bus ...
Then it's a bus!
I know the T put it on all the subway maps and yeah, it has some cool stations that buses normally don't have and all, but it's still a bus.
It's a Trolley
of the trackless variety ... sometimes.
Well, strictly speaking...
...the term 'subway' is applied to refer to only pure rapid transit systems, and not to light rail. So as long as we apply the term to the Green Line, I don't see why we can't also apply it to the Silver Line Waterfront. There really isn't that much of a difference, actually. Runs on catenary: check; some underground stations: check; partially street-running: check; bunches up in groups: check...
He's also a self-aggrandizing idiot
Whalehead King, man-about-Bean Town, is the kind of gentleman you often see and wonder about in a good way. He is well-dressed, well-groomed, well-mannered, well-weathered and a pleasure to be around.
Hooooooookaaaaay...
well-dressed?
Got to admit
That's a stylin' hat.
Whoa
Somebody wake up on the wrong side of the bed today? I've been reading his stuff for awhile now and maybe I'm reading him completely wrong, but I haven't been getting the sense he takes himself entirely seriously.