Evening Commute -- Mar. 30, 2010

I was meeting friends for dinner in Newton, and one of the friends, who also works downtown, suggested we take the bus. I don't know why I let her suggest this, because what I discovered is this: The only form of transportation worse than the Green Line is a Boston bus. We got on the bus at 6:00, and, luckily, got seats. I say luckily because it was very, very humid on the bus, and because the traffic was TERRIBLE. It took us an hour to get to Newton, a drive that should maybe have taken us 15 minutes or so, on the outside. Why does anybody take buses? It seems to me it strips everything pleasurable out of driving--like being protected from having to interact with the general public--while keeping all of its annoyances--like traffic.

The good thing about the bus is that it was extremely quiet. The subway is almost never quiet during my evening commute.