shmee-tee-eh?

As I write this, the el car I'm riding is groaning over the strain of several million too many passengers. This train system should have been revamped years ago. It's hard to imagine where all the fare money goes. How many millions of riders paying how many more millions of dollars for the pleasure of commuting for work or school or shopping? Where is this money going?

The workers, for one thing--but they're probably underpaid. And renovating train platforms, for another. So that, when it's all finished, we can wait on a stylish, modern platform for the ride that's 20 minutes late because the tracks and trains haven't been properly maintained for decades.

Ah, progress.

If you think things are bad now, how do you think it will be if we actually get the Olympics in 2016?