Hypocrits..... they have no money, in debt up to their eyeballs and now they want to give away free rides from the airport?! What's the deal? It's $3 now to take the subway? They need every penny they can get, even for 90 days. Bad idea..... bad idea.... but classic T, spend more money and go deeper into debt. AND raise the fares of everyone else to pay for it.

Is this in response to the story I read about out of town conventioneers getting free transportation from the Bayside expo center to the airport?

I guess the people on the North Shore who use the Blue Line to get to and from Logan get what in return.

This will be very helpful to international visitors who arrive without US currency. Now what we need is Massport to stop charging for luggage carts, which are free in most major international terminals.

Suggestion: To expidite Limo pickup @Logan, have automatic ticket dispensers.It is very inefficient and time consuming for a driver to stand in line. The car could drive through a portal and the EZ pass would authorize the ticket machine to dispense.

If you had bothered to read the article you would know that Massport, not the MBTA, is underwriting the cost of this trial program, but don't let me stand in the way of your classic rant against the T.

The Silver-Line 'service' is pathetic: #1. The buses assigned to the airport service are DANGEROUS for travelers; #2. The buses fail to have space for luggage at least 90% of the time; #3. NO SPACE for LUGGAGE - means travelers frequently stand WHILE trying to balance both themselves and their luggage; #4. The majority of Silver-line passengers are EMPLOYEES who ride to work at the AIRPORT or the Court House; #5. Also, many, many passengers exit at the Hotel stop to attend Conferences;#6. The passengers who are employees traveling to work - RESENT -the fact that they are sharing the bus with travelers who have luggage!#7. The MBTA bus drivers are rude, and poor drivers - they drive like possessed by the devil - speeding and never waiting for passengers to find a seat, jerky stops and starts. The Blue Line subway service may be somewhat of a hassle . . . but at least it is civilized and less stressful than the Silver-Line. Also, a $30.00 cab fare doesn't look all that bad for a traveler returning home from the airport when you consider the option of the Silver Line, even if it is 'free.'

Looks like someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed. The Silver Line is far from pathetic; for people that actually live in the city (of whom you clearly are not, considering your description of the MBTA bus service) and those going to the convention center it cannot be beat. There's always one...

This is a true slap in he face to employees of Massport and companies that work at Logan Airport and live in Revere, Winthrop, Marblehead and other places north of Logan. Never mind the thousands of commuters who use the Blue Line. All fares for those folks re going up significantly July 1, yet the moronic MBTA decides to lovingly couple with Massport and provide inbound freebee rides on both buses and subway trains for out-of-towners, Massport employees living in Quincy, Watertown and Roxbury. As a matter of fact a real cheap skates with time on his/her hands could ride from Logan to Suffolk Downs or Maverick on the Blue Line (with a few FREE transfers). There sure is a major question that remains unanswered: while employees and frieds of the departed could ride for free going home, how many additional incoming passengers does Davies and his legion of transport thimkers believe will bow to the demands of the state's tree-hugging nannies and lug their 3 or 4 suitcases aboard buses and subway trains? One last query, based on this following paragraph found in the Glob story: "A 2010 survey found that 70 percent of travelers to Logan arrived in their own cars, drove rental cars, or were dropped off by car or taxi, with the rest coming by bus, van, subway, ferry, charter, or courtesy shuttle, according to Massport, which wants to shave the percentage to 65." The freebees are for rides into downtown Boston, not from downtown to Logan. So how do interin Mackey and his boss, Davies, figure to solve the hullabaloo caused by arrivals rushing to get their kicks in the security lines? Free rides for departees? Nah... tht might make sense...

Back in the day, the original proposal called for a rail extension, connected into the subway system, that would have stopped at Logan's terminals. Then that was scaled back to a bus in a dedicated right-of-way. Then, the dedicated right-of-way disappeared from the plan, and it was just a bus that moved along with the car traffic. Why is MassPort now surprised that many people do not want to take a slow bus to the airport? They had their chance and, frankly, they blew it.

Anything that gets people out of cars gets my support.