Human Transit: quote of the week: "so many trains, so many buses!"

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03/06/2012

quote of the week: "so many trains, so many buses!"

"That's why I love the city so much — so many trains, so many buses. I don't know what to do with myself."

-Darius McCollum, accused serial thief of buses and
trains (!), profiled today by Eric Jaffe in Atlantic Cities.

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