Grabauskas has a lei-away plan.
Honolulu is building an el (a $5.3-billion el) and the people in charge want to hire our own Dan Grabauskas to oversee it. Wonder if he gets an SUV out of the deal.
His current boss, at the Bronner Group, couldn't be more thrilled:
Paul Levy provides the proof, with a video survey of the secret nip burial ground at Reservoir:
MBTA Transit Police report arresting a 14-year-old on charges he flashed a gun at an MBTA bus driver at Warren and Howland streets and then did the same thing moments later to a cab driver who refused to let him and his three pals in his cab.
According to MBTA police, the alleged gunboy and friends got off the 23 bus's rear exit, then walked to the front, where the kid with the gun "tapped the door of the bus, displaying what appeared to be a black handgun." In response, the driver floored it, fearing for his life, a police report says.
Not long after, police found a cab driver, who reported:
As he was stopped by Crawford Street and Warren Street he refused several youths from getting into his cab, one of them pulled out a black colored hand gun and pointed it at him and then tapped it on the window. He said fearing for his life he drove away and called 911.
Boston Police found the four hanging out on Blue Hill Avenue:
Patrick says let's give roughly $40 million in unspent snow-plowing money to the MBTA, but what about next year?
Elizabeth DiRusso spotted this scary dude at Park Street this afternoon.
Remember when the state bought an old CSX freight line through Cambridge and dumped some money into repairs and then announced, oopsies, it wasn't going to be running commuter trains to North Station over it after all? Cambridge Day does:
Despite being based only across the river in Boston, the administration doesn’t seem to understand mass transit or Cambridge much at all.
State transportation officials are currently studying ways to improve public transit for people not living within a half-mile of a subway stop in Roxbury, Dorchester and Mattapan. For the most part, that means better, cleaner bus service (such as express buses along the 28 line) and the expansion of the Fairmount Line.
Mind the step
Boston to a T reports this odd situation on the Red Line at Park Street, where riders had to step down into the cars.
Fager (l) and Neto.MBTA Transit Police report arresting a Fall River woman yesterday on charges she and a pal stole catalytic converters from cars parked at commuter lots in Sharon and Attleboro - less than a month after she and her husband were arrested for allegedly stealing catalytic converters from cars parked at South Shore commuter-rail stops.
In fact, Tina Fager was due back in Plymouth District Court today for a hearing on the January charges.
The amount of a tax break Tom Cruise gets when he makes a movie here almost equals the cost of keeping commuter rail service running on weekends and after 10 p.m.
The MBTA could avoid service cuts by shifting costs of services to state agencies that really should be bearing them and by levying an "equitable" 25% fare hike, the MBTA Advisory Board said today.
The board, which represents the cities and towns in the MBTA service area, released a counter-proposal to the T's current plans, which calls for fare hikes of at least 35% and major cutbacks across commuter rail and bus line and the elimination of all ferry service.
A proposal backed by Republican leadership in Congress would remove money from the federal gasoline tax that now goes to public-transit systems, including the MBTA.
The Republican proposal would put the money that now goes to mass transit - under a law enacted under Ronald Reagan - into road repair and construction. Republicans claim they would then try to win passage of a one-time $40-billion appropriation over five years for subways, commuter rail and bus services, but have yet to say how they would actually pay for that.
Meg Fowler Tripp tweets that around 8 a.m. a man was screaming loudly at the Roslindale Village commuter-rail stop:
I AM VERY VERY ANGRY THAT WHITNEY HOUSTON IS DEAD.
The Outraged Liberal notes the large and growing turnouts at all those MBTA meetings:
Lawmakers really have no one to blame but themselves for this predicament. And the wiggle room is rapidly disappearing. At hearing after hearing the public is making itself heard loud and urgently.
Several hundred people, including Mayor Menino, attended an MBTA service cut/fare hike meeting at the BPL in Copley Square tonight. Michael Ratty snapped a photo of one of the people wondering where Gov. Patrick was.
Starts at 4:30 p.m. today, followed by one of the MBTA's don't-blame-us meetings at the BPL.
Hotties on the T bills itself as:
Pictures of Men. Taken by Men. On the T.
And unlike that blow in from London, this site doesn't pretend to be about crushes:
This is about admiration. Admiration of fine looking men on the T. From a male perspective. We don't know our subjects, nor do we presume to know if they are gay, bi, or straight. We take unstaged pictures.
The Metropolitan Area Planning Council says payments on more than $5 billion in debt ensure the T will continue to lurch from one financial crisis to another, hurting riders and the regional economy for years to come, unless the legislature steps in to help do something about that debt.
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