On Monday, the Globe noted state Sen. Brendan Crighton (D-Lynn), who co-chairs the legislature's Joint Committee on Transportation, brought up the idea of charging people a fee to drive into Boston during peak hours - just like New York is doing in lower and mid-Manhattan, to help pay for the T.

Jay Fitzgerald, who lives west of our fair Hub, worries this will wind up meaning jacking up tolls on the turnpike and doing nothing to charge the motoring hordes coming into town on I-93, Rte. 2 and, well, pretty much every other road into Boston. You know, just like the state did when it need some extra cash to pay for the Big Dig and only made turnpike drivers pay for it, because they were already paying tolls, even if they weren't the ones who would most immediately benefit from the Zakim and

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