Ari Ofsevit reports he had to sit on on the luggage rack in a very crowded Silver Line bus this afternoon but at least he got a good view of the sunset over the Tobin Bridge.
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There's something on the
By Don't Panic
Tue, 08/13/2024 - 1:02am
There's something on the other side of the Tobin? I've got to get out of the City more.
Which silver line goes over
By CB
Tue, 08/13/2024 - 6:09am
Which silver line goes over the Tobin?
None
By adamg
Tue, 08/13/2024 - 8:46am
If you look closely out the window of the bus, though, you can see the Tobin.
If you sit on a crowded bus,
By Rwgfy
Tue, 08/13/2024 - 9:36am
If you sit on a crowded bus, you are crowd.
I see what you did there
By Scratchie
Tue, 08/13/2024 - 11:10am
Who's a clever boy?
One more bus, bro.
By SwirlyGrrl
Tue, 08/13/2024 - 12:09pm
One more bus, bro.
You must be new here
By Ari O
Tue, 08/13/2024 - 11:33am
Some of us are old enough to remember when it was called the Mystic River Bridge. Only relative newcomers call it the "Tobin Bridge"! (It was named after Tobin in 1967.)
Some of you n00bs probably call the Cottage Farm Bridge the "BU Bridge" (renamed 1949).
But who knows where the West Boston Bridge is?
By Ron Newman
Tue, 08/13/2024 - 2:52pm
Why, it’s…
By Swander
Thu, 08/15/2024 - 1:23pm
…right next to the Charles Street Jail, of course.
Holy cow
By ElizaLeila
Tue, 08/13/2024 - 3:28pm
I was born here in MA after the renaming (not much after, but still).
Guess I'm a relative newcomer, lol.
Nice try
By cybah
Tue, 08/13/2024 - 5:56pm
But we've met.. I also know you aren't a MA native.
I'm also pushing 50 and I never called any of these by those names. You'd have to be over 75 (for "Mystic River Bridge") or over 57 (for Cottage Farm Bridge) to call them that.
We ain't that old.
Wait, I'm not?
By Ari O
Sun, 09/08/2024 - 10:45pm
News to me!
Several years ago I went in for something at The Brigham and they said "have you ever been a patient here?"
I said "no, uh, wait, I was born here" and they looked me up by my SSN and said "so we can update your file from "baby [mother's maiden name]."
Speaking of which my mom (born in Lynn, grew up in Marblehead once they started letting Jews in … sort of) would call it the Mystic River Bridge, and then tell stories about taking the Sumner into the city as a kid when it was a single lane in each direction.
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