I love the subway. At first, it was just an obvious, cheap way to get around, but after a few years, when my friends from college started to move to cities where they had to buy their first car and sit through rush hour traffic, I realised how blessed we are in the New York area that we have a complete, working subway system. Tourists and new transplants are still going to hate it and be confused by it, especially if they only take it at rush hour, but I love that I don’t have to have a car and can still get anywhere I’d want to go for two bucks. Can you imagine if all those people sitting next to you on the train had to commute by car? We’d be so smoggy, not to mention the parking problem.

I prefer to walk as much as I can, but I’m really grateful that someone a hundred years ago figured this one out…