They’ve been doing a lot of work in JFK, or at least they have been working a lot. You know how that is.

One of the more noticeable “upgrades” is the addition of two new emergency phones on the ghetto side of the station, under the expressway. That brings the total to four, within, like, a ten-foot radius. I’m not sure how to feel about this, frankly. It doesn’t inspire confidence in the safety of the station or the neighborhood, but I guess you gotta do what you gotta do.

It’s funny somehow. Of course, it’s not the MBTA’s fault that its buses and trains run through rough neighborhoods, but the differences between the stations in various neighborhoods is so exaggerated it can seem comical at times. Take the lighting in the Harvard Square T. It’s very moody down there, very noir. Personally I think they should take some of those prison lights they installed in Jackson Square on the orange line, and move them over to Harvard.

Because, seriously, the lighting in Jackson Square station is off the hook. The difference is, almost literally, night and day. You travel further out, to Stony Brook, say, and again, you’re in the dark. What do you suppose that’s about?