A Boston transit rider was frustrated by a late train. She asked the city to give them googly eyes [Video]

No, this isn’t a Thomas the Tank Engine reboot. The trains in Boston now have googly eyes.

Why? For fun, of course. 

“We’re not really trying to fix the trains. We’re trying to add joy and whimsy into your daily commute,” said googly eye advocate Arielle Lok in an interview with As It Happens host Nil Köksal. 

In April, Lok and about 30 other googly eye enthusiasts made colourful signs and marched through Boston Common and to the doorstep of Boston’s transit authority, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA), known locally as the T.

Their goal was to convince the MBTA to accept its very simple demand: put googly eyes on its trains.

“I think that the eyes are the window to the soul, and the soul of a city is in its transit system,” said Lok.

“So I think that these eyes are trying to connect these dots and give all the riders of the MBTA a new, fun way …