What, Citizens Bank didn't want to buy the naming rights to State Street?

I assume that "renaming" simply means it would have been renamed State Street/Jet Blue or State Street/Citizens Bank, etc. As was done before. I forget who it was. It would still always be "State Street". I have to wonder though, why does MGH get Charles Street to be named Charles/MGH for free?

if we could rename the stations every few years with arbitrary names that have nothing to do with their actual locations

I worked for a while at a place with conference rooms named after ski areas in northern New England. My little brain could never retain which room was where because it never made sense to me.

I tell people in craigslist housemate ads that the town of Arlington is no where near the Arlington T stop, yet every time some fail to understand. So, I'm all for renaming that station!

"In addition, firms could add their names to the Blue Line (a $1.2 million minimum bid), Red Line ($1.6 million) and Green Line ($2 million). JetBlue had applied to sponsor the entire Blue Line."

I like Jet Blue, I haven't got a bad story so far from them.

And for Fung Wah, while shut down, I voiced before and I must voice again now that Fung Wah did not have an accident since 2007, contrary to popular opinion. Of course, the media tend to cite a later date... an accident involving a garbage truck that drove into a parked Fung Wah bus. The government crackdown is technically citing legitimate violations, but the crackdown stemmed from a fatal accident by World Wide Tours (now Go Bus) and advocacy by the American Bus Association. When was the last time have you heard a trade union lobbying the government for greater regulation on "themselves"? And while it was a Chinatown bus, it was not an Asian-American owned/run company. Meanwhile all 28 bus companies shut down has all been Asian-Americans. I must note despite perception, if regulations were enforced to the true spirit, Peter Pan and Greyhound would be cited too. Instead, they opened their new Chinatown line "Yo bus" that just happens to be a week after Fung Wah was gone.

The sole survivor today is Lucky Star. Though Fung Wah is still trying to comeback. They got lucky because they were ordering a whole bunch of new buses when they got shut down. Oh, btw, the cracked bus frames the media kept repeating, it wasn't as dangerous as it sounds like.

Yeah, I'm sure it would be money well spent to pay the T to put "State Street" on a bunch of signs.

Why not just sell the names to all sorts of things? Imagine taking the Red Bull Line, taking the train over the Google Longfellow Bridge as you pass from the City of Boston sponsored by Verizon to Apple Cambridge, looking out at the McDonalds Charles River... just another day in the Commonwealth of AT&T.