Zolok, who experienced the Moscow subway during the 1980s, gets off the Red Line at Alewife last night and says The T could learn a thing or two about subway operation:
I could've gotten to Alewife faster if the MBTA had the foresight to hitch up our train to a team of oxen.
No joke, I was a young man when I boarded that train full of naive' hopes about overcoming "switching problems in Davis Square", decades later we limped into Alewife liked the starved survivors of Stalin's GULAG. ...