Hair net saves transit system several thousand

Conventional wisdom suggests that government tends to react to problems with specialty solutions, all too often re-inventing the wheel. Well, not in Boston. An innovative technician for the T (the metro area transit system) discovered that a 5-cent hairnet and some duct tape worked better than any previous solution for keeping snow and ice out of T-engine intakes. In fact, the use of the hair net has now become standard policy.