Janie Katz-Christy rides the bus with daughter Nina in Somerville. The family gave away their car last November.
(photos by Yoon S. Byun/Globe Staff)
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Janie Katz-Christy rides the bus with daughter Nina in Somerville. The family gave away their car last November.
(photos by Yoon S. Byun/Globe Staff)
When Janie Katz-Christy and her husband needed to take their three children from Cambridge to Newton for a cousin's birthday party this summer and to Medford for dinner at a friend's house, they didn't pile into the family car. They couldn't. There is no family car. (Full article: 1057 words)
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