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Tone thing at Kendall station to be fixed
By adamg on Sun, 03/28/2010 - 9:18am
New Globe transportation writer Eric Moskowitz takes a ride on the T with the T's new general manager, learns all sorts of interesting tidbits (his father used to sing "Charlie on the MTA" to him), reports that, yes, the T is going to fix the busted gongy thing at Kendall, rather than just let it fall on somebody's head or something, which seemed to be the previous T administration's answer to its mechanical failings. Says Kendall is his favorite T stop, doesn't mention the giant hidden skull there.
Old Globe transportation writer Noah Bierman, meanwhile, leaves us with a story on how costs of the Ride have soared.
Finally in Globeland, Yvonne Abraham wastes some space telling us the B line is slow and unreliable. Ya think?
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Errrrr... I saw this too
It was weird - he was asked which was his favorite station and he talks about Kendall having this air-powered musical thing going on and how the T is going to fix it. It's not air-powered at all, as anyone who's been through there with any powers of observation can see - all the instruments are hand-cranked. And a student club at MIT that is relative to the original student club that installed it is going to fix it, with the T's blessing. It was covered in "The Tech" in February: http://tech.mit.edu/V130/N6/kendallbells.html
Nice to meet the young man, however. I wish him the best of luck in a very tough position. Interesting that he comes from the highly scrutinized MBCR...
actually...
oops, I stand corrected: it was originally the work of an artist and a group of MIT students is going to restore it. There are plaques in the station that mention something about an MIT student group having something to do with the original installation. It may have been a gift of a class...? Anyways, I thought it was worth commenting upon.
IIRC, the 'official' name for
the busted gongy thing is "The Kendall Band".