Electric Josh

Train
I've started taking the train again because I can't stand getting tense sitting in traffic anymore. Then after this excellent decision was made comes word that the totally impassible intersection at the confluence of Storrow Drive, the McGrath Highway, the new Leverett connector, and all traffic out of the Fleet Center is going to remain completely hosed for at least another year, if not forever. Forgive my astonishment that this major intersection passes just three friggin' cars per cycle of the traffic lights! Didn't anybody bother to simulate traffic flow before digging? Note also this space's eagerness to get its hands on some of whatever the story's author was using to hallucinate so heavily as to think that it has been possible to go faster than 1.5 miles per hour (that's walking speed) through the new tunnel during rush hour.

Of course, the train took over an hour this morning because of some ominous-sounding "medical emergency" at South Station, which apparently resolved itself just late enough that I had to walk through the rain from Kendall Square to work. And now I'm working from home anyway. Alas.
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