Bostonist: All Charlie All the Time

becky

Fri, 08 Dec 2006 14:28:43 -0500

they should weld them to the walls of haymarket to cover up the gum currently on all of the walls.

Central Square

Thu, 07 Dec 2006 17:12:01 -0500

I've hung on to a couple of commemorative T tokens I got in the last couple of years, including a "Sail Boston 1992" token and a silver "Orange Line Southwest Corridor Opening, May 1987" beauty. Are there any other unusual sorts of T tokens out there?

K

Thu, 07 Dec 2006 13:53:43 -0500

I'll miss those chubby little buggers.

dashford

Thu, 07 Dec 2006 11:37:43 -0500

I haven't read anywhere that Charlie is white -- he certainly could be Asian, for example. In any case, his facial features are so stylized that he appears to have no nose. Now THAT'S exclusive.

The SYborg

Thu, 07 Dec 2006 11:29:27 -0500

Charlie is a white guy. Why did they pick a white guy to "represent" the T? Couldn't they have picked something less exclusive? Anyway. Just saying.

Tom

Thu, 07 Dec 2006 11:23:19 -0500

When the MBTA announced the move to fare cards I immediately had a grand vision: Tokens, hundreds of thousands of them presented to an MTBA commissioned artist. "Here," they would say, "take these tokens and build us a monument." Imagine it, a bronze-gold colored sculpture rising from the ground, T-token welded to T-token, over the course of months, or perhaps years, building upon one another until finally the grand project is finished: A full-scale, life-size subway car constructed entirely of tokens. The only question is, where should they put it?

dashford

Thu, 07 Dec 2006 11:23:03 -0500

The idea that commuters are going "raise their fists and curse Charlie" for the MBTA's problems is more than a little bizarre. No one is confused or distracted by the branding of the new transit media, and I seriously doubt the MBTA intending it to do so. I mean, you don't see football fans blaming at Pat Patriot for the team's weaknesses. Also, let's not credit the MBTA with having replaced all the turnstiles just yet -- as visitors to the Arlington and Copley platform bottlenecks can attest.