I won't mince words:

the Green Line's "E" trolley sucks. Although the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (a.k.a. the MBTA, or even more simply just the "T") fails to operate its extensive network of trains, buses, and subway cars in accordance with anything even remotely resembling a useful timetable pretty much across the board - witness my inability to take the commuter rail home to the North Shore anytime between 8 o'clock and 9:30 p.m. on a weeknight - the "E" line streetcar that runs roughly parallel to Huntington Avenue is the worst of the worst. Frequently appearing with only one or two passenger cars attached, when three is the norm on the "B", "C", and "D" lines, the MBTA compounds the error by running the "E" line extremely infrequently, resulting in slow-moving trolleys that are already jam packed long before they reach the first major interchange. What makes this situation all the more unbelievable is that the Huntington Avenue train serves not only the Museum of Fine Arts and Symphony Hall, but the Longwood Medical Area, which is home to a combination of over twenty teaching hospitals and institutions of higher education!

For five long years the "E" line was the bane of my existence, on the days that I foolishly chose to ride its rails to and from my job at the Countway Library. Only rarely do I have to wrestle with it anymore, since I'm now working in Cambridge, but occasionally I'll be in town for lunch on Friday and I'll foolishly forget how much of a mistake it is to first wait for, then try and board, and even then manage to ride this green squeaky-wheeled beast. Today was one of those days.

Oof.