> Orange Line will get you up to Tufts & Medford Huh? The Orange Line has one stop in Medford. I live near it. Before that is an expensive shopping area in

> Orange Line will get you up to Tufts & Medford Huh? The Orange Line has one stop in Medford. I live near it. Before that is an expensive shopping area in Somerville, and after that is Malden Center. >However, BART runs on time, as does Caltrain. To the minute, unless somebody kills themselves on the tracks. You know exactly when the next BART train will arrive, and when it will get to its destination. By contrast, when I took the Red Line to work I would frequently find myself sitting stopped outside Alewife or Harvard Square for about 20 minutes for track maintenance, or because they lost the third rail, or because there was another train in the station whose doors were jammed, or any number of other reasons that a well-maintained public transportation system shouldn't have. Boston also sucks at supplying radial transit between the spoke-shaped lines running out of the hubs of North Station, Park Street, State Street, Downtown Crossing, and South Station.