The Globe reports a car hit and killed a deer on the turnpike near the eastbound entrance to the Prudential Center tunnel this afternoon.

Yes, you read that right.

This time it's from a group of motorists who want the return of all money the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority has funneled to the Big Dig, Blue Mass. Group reports. The Massachusetts Turnpike Equity Trust says:

We have organized a trust approved by the Middlesex Probate Court that is open to any MassPike toll payer who has paid tolls at Route 128, Allston/Brighton, Sumner/Callahan Tunnels, or the Ted Williams Tunnel. We are trying to remedy and change the unfair toll collection policies of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority. The Massachusetts Turnpike Authority documents indicate that up to 58 cents of every dollar collected on the Boston Extension (from route 128 into Boston), and the Sumner/Callahan and Ted Williams tunnels is unlawfully diverted to pay for the Central Artery project ("Big Dig"). We toll payers are fed up with our toll monies being diverted unfairly to pay for the costs associated with the "Big Dig" - an unlawful tax that has unfairly burdened toll payers and bankrupted the Turnpike Authority. We urge other toll payers to join us in our fight for the return of our unlawfully expropriated toll monies.

Their lawyer is Jan Schlichtman, the guy who led the Woburn toxic-chemicals-in-the-water lawsuit.

No fee to get one and no more 50-cent monthly service fee, Channel 4 reports.

Over at Blue Mass. Group, Bob details how taxpayers could soon be on the hook for a "swaptions" deal the geniuses at the turnpike authority cooked up. David has more on the deal, which the House would let be negotiated completely in private.

Jay Fitzgerald shakes his fist:

... He keeps babbling about his "obligations" and need for "balance" and running a "business." But where the hell is his obligations and balance and business sense when it comes to the customers? He's a bean counter. It's worse than that: He's a bean counter within a crazy Turnpike system in which the math has NEVER added up. ...

Dan Kennedy: Let the Pike go bankrupt:

What are the odds the turnpike authority takes the money then doesn't turn the lights back on?

Take a page from the T, put ads on the sides of the bridge and then light them up.

The Outraged Liberal concludes that, when it comes to transportation funding at least, Deval Patrick is flaming out rather spectacularly.

Jay Fitzgerald, meanwhile, compares the Patrick administration's pooh-poohing of recent outrages (Aloisi and Walsh) with attempts by some to pooh-pooh those AIG bonuses. He predicts:

Gov. Patrick's "trivial" comment is perhaps the single most stupid political remark I've ever heard muttered by a state or national pol in the face of genuine public outrage. It will stick with him for the rest of his years in the corner office.

Seems the system can't always tell the difference between a Yaris and a large box truck, so thousands of turnpike commuters have been getting overcharged, the Herald reports.