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Furthering our theory that nobody really cares about rider opinion and the T's administration is just a bunch of political play, Deval Patrick has canceled the rest of the MBTA public workshops that were scheduled to debate the fare increase. With supposed fare-hike-promoter Dan Grabauskas out of the picture, and any increases off the table until after a financial review of the T, there wasn't much point to the hearings, anyway. It might be a nice gesture if the MBTA at least pretended to listen to riders, but we suppose the agency is just being honest about its lack of concern for its users.

Remember that schedule of public meetings about MBTA fare increases we posted last week? Well, those workshops kick off this afternoon at 4pm at the State House (in the Gardner Auditorium). Bostonist plans to attend and send updates on the good stuff via Twitter, so start following us on Twitter to get the latest and greatest on the potential fare hikes. (We suppose that resignation thing might come up, too.) If you're not the Twitter type, don't worry; we'll write up a summary of the meeting for you once it's over. Information galore!