Idea On How to Make Bostonian Lives Easier

After a long weekend of playing hard and sleeping in extra late, hoards of Bostonians packed into MBTA trains and buses for their first day back at the office in our new year. Many of these people were probably miserable by the time they got to their place of employment, because they undoubtedly had to stand outside waiting for their trains or buses to arrive. People cursed with taking the green line, especially the B-line, know this well, as do those who live farther from T stations and must take a bus to that closer connecter, like Bostonist.

Thus, it is almost serendipitous that Bostonist gets an email from a friend mentioning "how amazing it would be" if our fine city could roll out something like the Nextbus system: GPS-tracked buses and (some) trains with notification via email, web, public displays, and dynamic pole sign?! Yes, please! Hook it up! Anything ... anything ... to make drenched commutes a thing of the past. San Francisco, Berlin, DC, even Oklahoma City - all have this type of service, or something similar. Boston is a major metropolitan city, not to mention a thriving technically-minded community, yet there is nothing like this. What gives?

Then again, there's that skyrocketing homicide rate that Menino's been talking about fixing. Bostonist will accept that there are certain priorities that take precedence.