BOSTON/Fenway - A public meeting called by the Fenway Community Development Corporation to organize area residents to oppose the MBTA's proposed cut of the 55 bus route Monday, took a positive turn when State Rep. Byron Rushing's (D-Boston) aide Elizabeth Corcoran-Hunt announced that no bus routes were slated to go on the chopping block in the wake of an independent review of the T commissioned by Gov. Deval Patrick and released earlier this month. The 55 bus runs from the Fenway up Boylston St. to Copley Square and downtown Boston.

BOSTON/Fenway - On November 7, the T Riders Union held a People's Forum at Northeastern University where riders and community members were able to express their concerns regarding the state of the MBTA. Among the issues discussed by the 50 attendees were the Big Dig debt - some of which has been passed on to the MBTA - proposed fair hikes, safety and accessibility.

BOSTON - The Boston Area Youth Organizing Project is leading a campaign to create a youth pass that will allow Boston residents under the age of 21 to afford public transportation.

Press Pass TV is a Boston-based youth-adult partnership non-profit whose mission is to produce socially responsible video journalism which promotes a more diverse media, empowers communities, and increases civic engagement.

BOSTON/Theater District – Calling on the MBTA Board of Directors to reject fare hikes and service cuts, members of the T Riders Union demonstrated in front of the State Transportation Building on Thursday. The Board, which met later that afternoon, is considering how to make up an annual deficit, currently estimated at $160 Million.

BOSTON/East Boston - The Massachusetts Turnpike Authority is responsible for debts incurred by the Big Dig, at over 14 billion dollars, the largest public works project in American history, The Authority borrowed money during the flush times of the early 2000s, partly using credit default swaps, one contributing component to the enormous financial bubble that burst and which now smothers the American and global economies.

BOSTON/East Boston - Recent developments in the 40 year fight to save the East Boston's Neptune Road neighborhood from destruction and incorporation into Logan Airport are chronicled in this two segment audio production by the Zumix Journalism Group, a radio training program for local high school kids based in East Boston.

BOSTON/Roxbury - Teens from Boston Youth Organizing Project (BYOP) and the Roxbury Environmental Empowerment Project (REEP) call for the creation of a $10 MBTA monthly "Youth Pass." The current "Stud