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MBTA hears commuters who hate stuffing dollar bills into slots

The MBTA has begun experimenting with a system that lets commuter-rail and ferry riders pay for parking by cell phone instead by rolling up all those dollar bills to stuff into those tiny slots at parking lots.

The new system, at parking lots along the Kingston line and at the Quincy and Hingham commuter-boat terminals, lets riders set up accounts and then dial a toll-free number to have the day's parking fee charged to their credit cards:

Upon creating a free pay by phone account, customers call the toll free number from their mobile phone, key in the location and parking numbers, and the parking fee is charged to their credit/debit card.


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'Tweed must stay dry'

Alex Taylor tweets:

This dude is riding a bike with one hand and carrying an umbrella with the other in harvard sq. Tweed must stay dry.


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Don't you just hate it when somebody breaks your expensive vase?

Greg Cook reports an ICA tour guide bumped into the pedestal used to display Joe Zane's glass sculpture "Tulip Head," sending the $7,000 work crashing to the floor and shattering it into a zillion pieces. With photos of the original work and the replacement vase the artist was able to make.


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Crazed singing bicyclist guns for woman in Cambridge

Wicked Local Cambridge does nothing to disabuse us of the notion that Cambridge is full of weirdos with an item about a woman almost run down by "a man on a bicycle singing loudly and riding toward her the wrong way on Harvard Street."


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Does Margery Eagan have a point today?

Or did she just feel like taking it easy and tossing out a column on nudie teen pix that adds absolutely nothing to the discussion? She should leave the cranky-old-person stuff to Alex Beam - he's much better at it (although I do like the related poll that includes this option: "Nobody ever sends me sexy photos"). Maybe she's still getting over the journalistic disappointment of not being groped on the Red Line the other day or something.


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Woman robbed at knifepoint in Somerville

Channel 4 reports the woman was robbed as she walked on Bow Street around 11 p.m. yesterday and that police are looking into whether there's a connection to a string of recent robberies, including Monday night's stabbing outside the Sullivan Square T stop.


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Feds could cut funding for Silver Line tunnel

Because they don't think the in-debt-to-its-eyeballs T can come up with its 40% share of the $1.5-billion bus tunnel, the Globe reports.

The Outraged Liberal can't wait, says this might finally be the kick in the teeth the state needs to come up with an actual, serious plan for dealing with all of the region's transportation issues:

... But then again, this is Massachusetts. If we could tax words, we would be swimming in cash.


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It's 1 a.m. on a Saturday and you suddenly need chocolate-chip cookies ...

CityBaked sounds like just the service Boston has been looking for: Late-night home delivery of fresh-baked cookies and ice cream.

Not a clue if they're actually up and running (the "about us" page, for example, is blank) or what their definition of "Boston" is (past delivery efforts have tended to consider places like Roslindale and Dorchester as terra incognita), but they promise home delivery of sugary, high-cholesterol goodness between 6 and 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and between 6 p.m. and 2 a.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.


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Goodness: City councilor proposes city boards post minutes on this InterWeb thing

But first: Over at the Phoenix, Adam Reilly gets a press release from Sam Yoon about opening up city government and all he can think is "Don Saklad must be thrilled." Until he realizes the press release doesn't mention stenographic recordings.

In any case, Yoon is proposing that:

... All city commissions and boards would be required to post their members' names, meeting schedules, agendas and minutes on the Internet. ...


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Creepy-looking pudgy guy with bags under his eyes wanted for Sullivan Square stabbing

Wicked Local Somerville posts a police drawing of the guy wanted for stabbing a woman in the chest Monday night when she wouldn't give up her handbag.


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