Word: subway
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...last haven of ring tone-free peace is gone. The Massachusetts Bay Transport Authority (MBTA) has announced that it will install a wireless communication network inside the tunnels of the MBTAs subway system. According to the MBTAs press release, [T]he project, to be introduced in phases, begins at the subway platforms at Park Street, Downtown Crossing, Government Center, and State Street, and includes the tunnels connecting those stations. Once the wires are in place, a transportation system that made the world a little smaller will be made a lot louder. While Amtrak trains have solved this problem by designating...
Cell phone service inside the tunnels of the T removes yet another means of relaxation. Even if your cell phone isnt ringing while you are underground, someones cell phone is bound to ring on a subway car full of people, disturbing your moment of peace to contemplate your own blank expression in the reflection of the subway car window...
However, one must account for opportunity cost. Not every T rider has the facile assuredness of Jeffrey S. Bramson 08, who used his Tae Kwon Doe black belt skills to fend off a mugger on a New York City subway. A mugger attempted to steal a fellow riders purse at a stop, and Bramson tripped the thief, grabbed the purse and handed the purse back to the woman...
...another account of homophobia, Susan B. Marine, director of the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response, said that someone told her on the subway, “You’re going to hell, dyke...
There are a number of proposals that Harvard could take advantage of, including the Urban Ring Project, which would extend a rapid-transit bus system around Boston so that riders would not have to go to the center of the city and then travel out on the subway to reach their destinations...