This smells like a mystery at North Station

[Ian David]

By Mac Daniel, Globe Staff | March 25, 2007

A reader says North Station smells -- and it's not the service he's talking about.

"What's the story with the stench at North Station?" wrote John of Medford. "For well over a month, North Station has smelled like sewer exhaust."

John emphasizes the point, saying, "I'm not generally taken to sobbing during my commute on the Orange Line . . . but at times the sulfur cloud under Causeway Street has made my eyes water."

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Wearing a Tyvex suit and carrying a duffel bag of (grapefruit-scented) Yankee Candles, we went with MBTA spokesman Joe Pesaturo to the scene to search out the stench.

We smelled it. Pesaturo did not.

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"I smell the sweet scent of safe and reliable transit services," Pesaturo said at one point, directing passengers to go down a "corridor" to get to the TD BankNorth Garden.

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