MBTA photo policy turns into Moebius strip at Newton Highlands

By adamg on Fri, 02/12/2010 - 2:20pm

Back in October, a trolley driver threatened Owen Byrne with arrest for taking a photo at the Newton Highlands T stop.

Today, he reports, he was back at Newton Highlands to be interviewed by a reporter and camera crew about the MBTA photo policy that a sizable number of T employees don't seem to know exists:

Impressively enough a train driver stopped and asked if we had permission (which we did) to film at the station while we were doing this.

Look for Byrne and Adam Weiss, who had his own photo run-in with a T worker, on Channel 4 news tonight, sometime between 5 and 6:30 p.m.

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doesn't seem to know should be....

By Michael Kerpan on Fri, 02/12/2010 - 2:30pm.

...don't seem to know (I think).

Won't be home

By Kaz on Fri, 02/12/2010 - 2:31pm.

I'd like to know if WBZ got anyone at the MBTA to comment on this. Could someone recap it here if you're going to be around and watching it?

If anyone finds a link to the video vignette on the WBZ site later either, that'd be great.

Here's the story and video

By Eighthman on Sat, 02/13/2010 - 10:11am.

http://wbztv.com/local/pictures.on.the.2.1491337.html

Thanks!

By Kaz on Sat, 02/13/2010 - 10:30am.

Adam posted it to his Twitter account last night because someone (you?) had posted it in the other thread. Thanks a lot!

Nice report!

By Eighthman on Fri, 02/12/2010 - 5:46pm.

Reassuring to learn that every T person will be given the new policy and has to sign and return it, like a report card.

with our luck,

By aging cynic on Sun, 02/14/2010 - 6:51pm.

they will scan it into their computers, upload to Blackberries and email it back while they are driving a subway car....