One good thing about Moscow during the decline of communism

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. ...