Picking Up People at Logan Now 25% Less Dreadful

Going to Logan Airport, even before the Star Simpson Incident, typically inspires a sense of dread. If one person mentions that they have to pick up a parent/boyfriend/girlfriend/SI at the airport, anyone else involved in the conversation immediately offers condolences. Airport meetings involve robbery via high parking prices, hassling with State Police if you linger at the curb, or guns if you're a slightly spacey MIT student.

Trips to Logan might get easier with a brand new "Cell-Phone Lot." If you get to the airport early to pick someone up or if they're stuck at baggage claim, you can park in one of 50 spaces in the magic lot and wait for up to 30 minutes until your passenger summons you.

And it's free. The lot is on Harborside Drive before the Hyatt Harborside Hotel, and it opens on Thursday.

Massport hasn't put up a map yet, or at least they don't have one in an obvious place, so we grabbed a Google aerial view of the Hyatt Harborside Hotel.