The Boston Traveler

Well, I’ve heard of dancers bustin’ some moves on train station platforms. But, I think this is the first time I’ve seen any this big do their thing inside an actual subway car.
Someone happened to be carrying their video camera or cellphone when a couple of B-boys caught a Red Line T train at the Kendall Square/MIT stop in Cambridge recently and commenced to getting down until Charles Street/Massachusetts General Hospital, one stop later. Nice!
Check out the video after the jump, which I warn you is not high quality in the least. It is an authentic and …read more

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Last Saturday in the post “Happy Birthday, Charlie!,” I wrote about the first birthday of Boston’s CharlieCard transit payment system. The innovative “smart card” contains an electronic chip that allows passengers to preload money and then tap their payment when boarding public transportation instead of swiping or inserting it. If a passenger has mastered the tapping routine, the newer process can speed boarding times substantially (and if they haven’t, settle in for a brain-numbing wait while they and their ten — it’s always ten, minimum — clueless companions each attempt to learn on the fly).
Anyway… While …read more

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On Tuesday, December 4, the latest fare collection method of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (better known as simply the MBTA) turned one year old. Bay State residents call the electronic “smart card” that supplanted the former T-pass and token system the CharlieCard, or just plain Charlie for short.
Charlie’s a handy little hard-plastic guy, very much like a credit card in appearance, that allows you to do all sorts of wonderful things, such as ride public transportation for less money with the significant fare discount allotted to purchasers.
There’s also a paper-based, swipeable CharlieTicket, which is dispensed at vending machines …read more

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