Winter happens at North Station; riders sigh and go 'tarnation!'

This is what we need in Boston, especially with them trying to push a fair increase through at this point:

Group Urges Swedes To Evade Subway Fares, And Even Insures Against Fines

... The members of this group believe that public transportation should be paid for by taxes, with free tickets. The idea may not be so far-fetched. Nearby Tallinn, Estonia, recently went that route, and a handful of other cities in Europe and the U.S. have experimented with the same thing.

These fare jumpers complain that subway tickets in Stockholm cost 75 percent more than they did a decade ago. ...