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How A Bored Brookline Teen Accidentally Renamed An MBTA Bus Stop
"Without thinking, I went in, tried to change it to something," Brendon Libby, 14, said.
December 5, 2025
What started as a bored teenager's online experiment during the pandemic has turned into a real-life change on MBTA bus routes.
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Brendan Libby, now a senior at Brookline High School, says he often passed a small, unnamed road tucked behind a Chestnut Hill apartment complex. In 2021, while bored during the pandemic, the then-14-year-old discovered he could submit edits or suggest names through Google Maps.
"Without thinking, I went in, tried to change it to something," he said.
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