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...Chambers, 56, worked as an elevator starter, someone who monitored the cars--and helped people if they got stuck--for 27 years at the north tower of the World Trade Center. His station was on the 78th floor, and his instinct to help kicked in when he exited the subway in lower Manhattan on Sept. 11 and saw the gray ribbons of smoke streaming from the building. "I have to go in," he said to a friend. "I know people in there. Maybe I can help." Instead he soon found himself running from hell, trying to escape the crumbling tower...
...PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION: Harvard students enjoy some of the finest, cheapeast public transportation in the country. The “T” makes travel fun and convenient. Compare that to SEPTA, Philly’s answer to a question no one asked. The subway is so bad that even the homeless don’t hang out there...
With the Silver Line, the country’s oldest subway system is going high-tech. Now under construction, it is the product of the most advanced Bust Rapid Transit technology in the world. The project will be completed in three stages. This spring the Silver Line service will begin operation between Dudley Square and Downtown. At the end of 2003, a route between South Station and Logan Airport via the South Boston Waterfront will open. When finally completed in 2010, the Silver Line will not only offer a one-seat ride from Dudley Square to Logan for over...
...would have to remember. The towers had loomed protectively over hide-and-go-seek games, my first bike ride, the time Adele Kudish tripped over me running through the spray of an open fire hydrant at my 10th birthday party. On late nights, as I walked home from the subway station, I would always look up at the lights scattered through the towers and muse over who was staying late to work, and why, and what people were celebrating up in Windows on the World, which cast an unbroken strip of light from the 107th floor...
...make sure our visitors read the legend, from poet Frank O?Hara, that snakes along a balustrade: ?One need never leave the confines of New York to get all the greenery one wishes. I can?t even enjoy a blade of grass unless I know there?s a subway handy, or a record store or some other sign that people do not totally regret life...