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What's the latest novel vision for the T? Googly eyes | WBUR News

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Picture this: You're waiting on the platform of the T. It's been a long day, your train is late and you just want to get home and into some comfy clothes. You look up as your train approaches. Suddenly, you're faced with two giant googly eyes staring back at you from the front of the train. WBUR is a nonprofit news organization. Our coverage relies on your financial support. If you value articles like the one you're reading right now, give today. That's the scenario for future T riders proposed by Arielle Lok, an organizer with a group called "Googly Eyes on the MBTA." "If you look really closely it kind of looks like the T is smiling at you, and it's saying 'Hey, sorry, I'm late, but I'm just so silly,' " the 22-year-old said. "And suddenly you forget that it's even late to begin with, because you're just having such a good time looking at this train and the train is looking at you." On Monday, the group's members stood outside the Park Street station to not only champion their whimsi

Support WBUR Members with the group "Googly Eyes on the MBTA" rallied on Boston Common near the Park Street station Monday. (Meghan B. Kelly/WBUR) Editor's note: The group did, indeed, achieve their goal, which you can read more about here . Picture this: You're waiting on the platform of the T. It's been a long day, your train is late and you just want to get home and into some comfy clothes. You look up as your train approaches. Suddenly, you're faced with two giant googly eyes staring back at you from the front of the train. That's the scenario for future T riders proposed by Arielle Lok, a

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