Posts Tagged: Public Transportation
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150 Years Of Riding In A Hole In The Ground

| January 9th, 2013

"A subterranean railway under London was awfully suggestive of dank, noisome tunnels buried many fathoms deep beyond the reach of light or life; passages inhabited by rats, soaked with sewer drippings, and poisoned by the escape of gas mains. It seemed an insult to common sense to suppose that people who could travel as cheaply on the outside of a Paddington bus would prefer, as a merely quicker medium, to be driven amid palpable darkness through the foul subsoil of London." —The first stretch of London's Metropolitan Line opened on January 9th, 1863. That's 150 years ago today, which, if you've been on an A train here in [...]

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I Saw A Bed Bug On The Bus

| November 1st, 2010

So I saw my first bed bug in New York City this weekend and, thank god, it was not in my apartment. It was in a pretty bad place, though. On a bus, the M9, on the sleeve of the windbreaker of a man sitting right next to me and my kid and my kid's friend. We were with my kid's friend's mom, too, heading to their house to have lunch after karate class. (The kids are in the class, not us adults. Still, though, I've been watching. So don't fuck with me.)

There is no doubt that it was a bed bug.

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If You See Something, Shit Something

| June 3rd, 2009

As a homeless man in Phoenix makes a feces deposit in a train, one brave New Yorker takes a stand against a different, but also feces-based, attempted doody drop. WARNING: Both links contain feces.