Here’s an excerpt from the NY Times’ Sunday column called (appropriately enough) Sunday Routine. The article is called: A Day Without a Train and it’s about Park Slope’s Gene Russianoff, who has been the  staff lawyer for  New York Public Interest Research Group’s Straphangers Campaign for thirty years.

He has championed the rights of subway riders. Most days, he is one: He and his wife, Pauline Toole, the program director of the We Are New York Community Leadership Project, do not own a car. But on Sundays, Mr. Russianoff, 57, Ms. Toole, 54, and their daughters, Jennie, 14, and Natalie, 11, who all live in Park Slope, dash around Brooklyn on foot, by bus and, if they are late to a soccer game, by car service. “Taking the train on the weekend,” Mr. Russianoff said, “is like Russian roulette.”