The bottom line is that we have to keep the transit system running because the health of this city depends on it. I apologize to our riders but we have to pay a little more.

Now some members of council are caught like deer in the headlights and they're running for cover and saying they didn't know what they were doing ... because they don't want to be associated with giving themselves an increase.

It may have cost us $10 million, but we have stopped the bleeding.

I would be tempted to recommend that the baby be named Wellesley, but that's up to the mother.

We're averaging about one incident a day. It ranges all the way from someone yelling at a driver to someone shooting a driver, at the other extreme end of it.

Everybody knew. They're just trying to hide the fact that they voted for it,