[URBAN NOTES] Three Things I Saw on my Morning Subway Trip

[rfmcdonald]

• The faint shine of a subway car's front lights on the ceramic wall tiles of the tunnel, disappearing just before the car becomes visible, having rounded the bend into the southbound lane at the Osgoode station.


• A group of five people--one man in his 50s, three women in their 40s, one adolescent girl--who were apparently tourists, and who tried to board at Osgoode. One woman--"Judy"--didn't get a chance to board before the doors closed and the train left the station. After some discussion, the four left their seats (just across from mine) at Union Station and went back.


• Walking west from Wellesley station, I saw a man in his late 20s leaning against the station wall, reading a battered paperback copy of The Legacy of Heorot.