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How many foreign leaders have ridden the T?

By adamg on Tue, 07/23/2019 - 12:15pm
Boris Johnson on the Red Line with one of the few other riders during a 2015 blizzard?

In February, 2015, Boris Johnson, then mayor of London, got on the Red Line to try to get to some event at Harvard, but couldn't because we were having one of those blizzards.

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Comments

By Citygirl on Tue, 07/23/2019 - 12:21pm.

That winter was BRUTAL!

By mangycougar on Tue, 07/23/2019 - 12:37pm.

A rejected version of the Doctor.

By Chris77 on Tue, 07/23/2019 - 1:10pm.

How many Massachusetts leaders have ridden the T?

By Nomi on Tue, 07/23/2019 - 3:09pm.

Governor Dukakis did regularly (and still does; I've seen him on the 66 bus). State Rep. Tommy Vitolo does, as well; he's put fixing the T as one of his major issues.

By Smart Arse on Tue, 07/23/2019 - 8:31pm.

There's Gov. Dukakis and..... yeah that's about it.

By anon on Tue, 07/23/2019 - 9:44pm.

Byron Rushing used to take the Orange Line and 55 bus to the State House. But he got voted out this past year.

By Waquiot on Tue, 07/23/2019 - 10:10pm.

That all 4 Boston mayors elected since the MBTA was created had, at some point in their lives, ridden the T.

The bigger question is if any of them have ridden the Tube.

By Finn on Tue, 07/23/2019 - 1:18pm.

If a future Prime Minister of the UK can ride the T, so can Charlie Baker

By anon on Tue, 07/23/2019 - 1:32pm.

So can Mayor Walsh and the City Council.

Does any of them besides Michelle Wu even have a CharlieCard?

By MisterMagooForYou on Tue, 07/23/2019 - 1:32pm.

Boris = Magoo. Magoo = Boris. Magoo.

By StillFromDorchester on Tue, 07/23/2019 - 1:36pm.

Can't mix with the common folk without proof.

By anon on Tue, 07/23/2019 - 2:33pm.

And told his fellow Englishmen that the London Underground was safe,clean and reliable and the tube in Boston was unsafe, filthy and unreliable,

By adamg on Tue, 07/23/2019 - 8:43pm.

While he was here, he was most impressed by the Big Dig and proposed London do something similar.

By Luke Warm on Tue, 07/23/2019 - 3:21pm.

not sound to me as insane as our American conservatives, with the caveat that I have only just heard him speak this morning. According to criticism by Jeremy Corbyn, the British conservatives do all the dirty tricks that ours do re: making voting difficult, cutting taxes for the super rich, etc. One thing that got me thinking, was that in his speech this morning, Boris stated that his party (and I paraphrase), the conservatives, have always known the "truth" about human nature, and that knowing this truth is what guides them.

Sounds like dog whistles to me. Ya know, it might be a lot easier for Muslims to assimilate to European culture if Britain and the United States made better sense on what the Iraq war was like for them. There has been no honesty about that at all. Conservatives want at all costs a structure to protect them from having to solve the problem of real human relationships. We hurt the middle east. No wonder Muslims won't assimilate. I don't think that their resistance to assimilation is good btw, but I understand it.

Bunch of knuckle-dragging cave fucks.

British conservatives are as twisted and bloodthirsty lying slobs as we've got here--they just sound intelligent when the speak. Our conservatives are degrading to the point that they speak in nonsense pentameter.

By Refugee on Tue, 07/23/2019 - 3:48pm.

His photographs look so silly and down to earth, it's hard to dislike the guy, even though I know I am supposed to view him as an English version of Trump.

By Old Groucho on Tue, 07/23/2019 - 4:19pm.

"reckon i could have a pint with him."

(facepalm) People are STILL falling for this kinda s***?

By Kapil on Tue, 07/23/2019 - 5:02pm.

Does he seem like the type of person you would enjoy having a beer with, Refugee? Adam and I are liberals but that is how he and I assess political candidates, all things being equal.

By ScottB on Tue, 07/23/2019 - 5:35pm.

Likely rode the T at least once during her four years in Cambridge.

Also, given that Ho Chi Minh is believed to have worked at the Parker House in 1912 or 1913, there's a decent shot he had used the Tremont St. Subway at some point.

And, er, duh, no doubt Barack Obama rode the T during his years as a student at Harvard Law.

By jmeltzer on Tue, 07/23/2019 - 6:30pm.

89 to Davis, then Red Line.

By anon on Tue, 07/23/2019 - 6:52pm.

Except when he drove and got parking tickets. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/fine-for-parking/

By anon on Wed, 07/24/2019 - 12:31am.

Interesting character.

By Nowy Liberté on Wed, 07/24/2019 - 7:42am.

My youngest brother while @ MIT sat on that very bench one evening. He shared it with a very drunken Federal Court Judge.

The Judge's story was apparently so compelling that my brother almost missed the last train to Cambridge.

So you just never know with whom you'll be sharing a bench