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"Love and Hate the T" explores my ambivalent relationship with public transportation on the East Coast. Originally from Cleveland, I have a Midwesterner's love of the open road, and a strong connection to my automobile. The piece tells the story of how I challenged that resistance during one very hot, humid summer.....
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"Love and Hate the T" explores my ambivalent relationship with public transportation on the East Coast. Originally from Cleveland, I have a Midwesterner's love of the open road, and a strong connection to my automobile. The piece tells the story of how I challenged that resistance during one very hot, humid summer.....
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Learning to love—and hate the T
By Judah Leblang/2004
Word count: 735
I’m a Clevelander by birth, a resident of the Boston area by choice. Being a child of the Great Lakes has left me with some legacies of life on the Great Lakes—a lifelong love of the Cleveland Indians, a tendency to make eye contact with strangers, and an attachment to my automobile, and the freedom of wide open spaces.
But Cleveland lacks the energy of the East Coast—especially for a single gay man like me, and so in the mid ‘80’s I left Ohio for the bright lights of the Northeast. Through all my time in Boston—I’ve lived in Somerville, Medford, Jamaica Plain, Beacon Hill and Newton—been upwardly and downwardly mobile—the one constant has been my dependence on my car.
Cleveland is an easy town to negotiate; drivers actually obey traffic signals. But even though Boston is the home of the Darwinian school of...
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