My street was closed off today, because BEN AFFLECK is filming right down at the end of it, in my DRUG PARK!

That’s one of the saddest little parcels I know, but somehow it’s got the most appropriate name: Meany Park. But it was somebody’s name, I think. Maybe Owen’s. It’s a historical lot–site of the first something or other. Whatever it was, it’s gone now. There’s a plaque. I’ll get back to you on it.

I think the movie’s about a missing child. I think it really promotes Dorchester’s drug parks to highlight them in a movie about child abduction.

But now, with this big-ass crowd out there, I’m not gonna be able to get my Thursday night crack fix. My dealer’s camera-shy.

Article by Charles D. Chieppo in the Boston Globe, HERE.

Chieppo argues that the T should focus on maintenance rather than expansion. Whether you agree or not, he makes some good points about how the MBTA’s $8 billion debt could be addressed by the legislature.

He cites Stephanie Pollack’s study “On The Right Track: Meeting Greater Boston’s Transit and Land Use Challenges,” which you can find HERE. Pollack is a Senior Research Associate at The Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University.