There’s something I like about the Baltimore subway and rail system.<\/p>\n
The modern art.<\/p>\n
You’ll notice it at virtually every station or stop — there’s some sort of modern sculpture made of concrete or metal decorating the entrance. One station has a rather tesseract-like cube half-buried in the ground on its side. Another station — the State Center station — has a metal sculpture that looks like a high-powered telescope or a box kite hanging from the ceiling.<\/p>\n
The light rail isn’t immune. There’s a modern sculpture of sorts at several of the stops, though only Cultural Center comes to mind. It’s a weird metal sculpture I couldn’t begin to describe, so I won’t.<\/p>\n
At one stop, there’s a statue of a squirrel.<\/p>\n
Things like this give the metro system character. It’s nifty<\/i>.<\/p>\n
After a little more than two weeks riding the rails, it’s become routine. It’s what I do. I do things like little fist pumps when I disembark from a train, denoting a successful journey.<\/p>\n
There have been some snafus along the way. Monday morning the subway wasn’t announcing stops, and it was only because I’d learned to recognize what the station looked like did I realize I’d reached my stop.<\/p>\n
Time to brave another day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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