How To Ride The Subway

Boston's MBTA complex fell apart this winter, when 110.6 inches of snow illuminated how my city's subway system (the oldest in America) is also one of the most decrepit in the country, with entire lines shutting down for days at a time due to mechanical failures. New Yorkers endlessly whine about the subway and the constant construction that delays and closes many of their own lines, but truth be told, every city, big or small, has its issues. San Francisco's access to the BART ends at midnight,...