<p>I can't stand Boston's T since I am so used to NYC's subway. NYC subways come once every 3 minutes or so, Boston's subway arrives every 20 minutes or so.</p>
<p>Red line comes pretty frequently.</p>
<p>20 minutes? i never waited that long when I was in the Boston area (although it was a few years ago).</p>
<p>Yeah, red and green come all the time. I don't know any that take more than twenty minutes, really. If you're in the main sections of Boston, the T comes quickly. If you're somewhere weirder or going somewhere weirder, you have to wait longer. But, I don't think you ever need to wait 20 minutes. I never have.</p>
<p>the most i had to wait was 10 and that was only because we missed a train. so its not that bad. sometimes nyc's subway annoyed me because it would "jump" stations. on an express train that happened sometimes. you have to be careful there. still i like watching guys give speechs about how drugs ruined their lives and how they recovered. (all while asking for charity of course) it's so much more colerful and fun on a nyc train than on a boston train.</p>
<p>That's strange. When I was there last summer I had to wait nearly 20 minutes each time on the Red line. Maybe it was just a string of (5 or 6) consecutive bad lucks.</p>
<p>Maybe they were doing maintenance while you were visiting? I've never had to wait much more than 5 minutes for a train on the red line, even after just missing a previous train.</p>
<p>I read an entire chapter of George Eliot's Middlemarch while waiting for a train at one point. Must've been a while.</p>
<p>Waiting 20 minutes for a green-line train is not unheard of, but it is very uncommon for a red-line train. You have have been very unfortunate.</p>
<p>Ironically, I only took the Green Line once, at the station in front of Northeastern. I only waited 2 minutes there.</p>
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Lol only an asian or a ccer would go to mit or harvard when it is closed-just to see it from the outside and dream. yeah i happen to be both and i went. i met some other asians as we got off the subway (ahhh! i cant remember the name of the station! mit/belmont? maybe something like that klement? clement?) we wandered cluelessly and stared at mit from the outside while dreaming we go there.
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<p>When were you there? I went into Cambridge for a few hours a few days ago. I saw plenty of Asian families, and I remember one in particular that was taking pictures nonstop. I recall the whole family posing in front of the door of the Asian studies building. Actually, there might have been a few of those families that I saw in different places...</p>
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I can't stand Boston's T since I am so used to NYC's subway. NYC subways come once every 3 minutes or so, Boston's subway arrives every 20 minutes or so.
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<p>I've taken the T many times, and I've never had to wait that long. I waited 10 minutes once, and it was because I was going into Boston from the Beverly depot. Anything within Boston itself or right outside of it takes no more than a couple minutes.</p>
<p>terra do you live in Massachusetts? 'Cuz it always seems like there's at least one Asian family taking pictures at the John Harvard statue. Sometimes there are lines. Some days it's impossible to cut through the Yard without getting in front of someone's camera.</p>
<p>I do live in Massachusetts, and you're right. Specifically, I saw families taking pictures at the statue, and at Annenburg, and at the Asian studies office...</p>
<p>Are you in MA/Boston, PorSK?</p>
<p>^ Best Post in Thread Award </p>
<p>edit: goes to PorSK!</p>
<p>I guess something definitely was happening when I went there, because I waited nearly 20 minutes all across the Red Line. At the MIT station, people were so bored that someone keeps playing with the knob that sounds those bells in the middle of the station (or at least I think it was someone turning that thing.)</p>
<p>Yep terra, I live near Cambridge.</p>
<p>Is that bell thing still at the MIT station, I wonder?</p>
<p>You mean the artsy things where you turn the crank and they play music? They were still there in November.</p>
<p>Yep, that's the one I meant. People kept playing with that thing because the train wouldn't come.</p>
<p>I do remember waiting for longer than usual at that stop, can't remember which one it is, but it was still less than ten minutes. You sure that was Kendall?</p>