T riders, to the barricades!

Mike Mennonno wonders why people generally seem resigned to the impending fare hikes - especially given all the fuss a couple years back when the T tried to ban buskers:

... I mean, we're talking a nearly forty percent increase here - think of that over the space of a year - there's nothing but stunned silence. People feel powerless, apparently, and that fare hikes like this are inevitable and unstoppable.

Take a page from the immigrants' playbook. There's strength in numbers. ...

Jason investigates forward funding, one of the things that apparently got the T in trouble to begin with.