The Fickle Finger of the MBTA

The Globe reports that state environmental officials are giving the nod to the Green Line extension (to Union Square in Somerville and West Medford); more stops on the Fairmount commuter line in Mattapan, Dorchester, and Hyde Park; and more parking spots all around the area. Mass transit advocates are, understandably, dissatisfied, as JP is getting the short end of the stick, the Silver Line continues to be the stupidest "train" ever, and the Blue and Red Lines still aren't connected. Bostonist finds this last one extra-specially annoying - not because we don't live in JP or Roxbury (in fact, our mother-in-law lives in the South End, and we hate the Silver Line for going right by her house but being so slow and inconvenient that we can save time by taking the Orange Line to Back Bay and walking half a mile), but because it would be so easy to solve the two-transfer problem faced by Blue Line riders: Just give out transfers at Government Center and let people walk to Park Street. It wouldn't be as nice as a covered walkway, to be sure, but damn, it would be better than nothing.