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Good things take time - like the commute on the Orange Line this morning
By adamg on Wed, 11/13/2013 - 7:34am
A dead train gave Orange Line commuters extra time to check e-mail or read the Metro cover to cover and back again. Around 7, Ford Inbody tweeted:
Overall from Sullivan Square to Back Bay took me 52 minutes. Normally around 20 in the morning.
That included waiting 20 miunutes at Sullivan just for a train to show up and 10 minutes just sitting at Downtown Crossing.
There was also a dead train on the Red Line, but that was around 6 a.m., when hardly anybody was awake to notice.
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Yikes
And these are the trains that are supposed to last until 2019? They will be lucky to make it past the winter of 2014.
Still waiting for Bev Scott
Still waiting for Bev Scott to take responsibility like past GMs. I guess we will all become experts in waiting thanks to the current level of system reliability.
Why not Davey?
Davey is still in charge of the MBTA under MassDOT and has more ultimate authority over purchasing.
Or Patrick? Or the legislature?
Why Scott, who just got here, and can only work with what she is given?
Because unlike her
Because unlike her predecessors she hasn't been criticized by the media or fired by the governor for poor performance.
Her predecessor was Davey
Last I checked, being promoted from MBTA GM up to MassDOT Secretary does not constitute "being fired."
So my question remains.
Why don't you criticize Davey and call for his resignation?
I really want to know.
Because Grabuskas got canned
Because Grabuskas got canned by the governor for the same stuff and grilled for months over the issues by the press.
Now the governor appoints someone so bad they were for all intents purposes fired from the last system they managed and there is no criticism or accountability for her failures. Davey nor the governor are ever questioned or do they question the capabilities of the current GM because she is a 100% politically appointed doorstop.
Look at how hands on and high profile Davey and Dan were in their tenure. Beverly only shows her face for photo ops. We NEVER see her in any public appearance which isn't strictly staged to make the MBTA look good.
What you're missing is...
That's kind of the point. Attack the general manager and bring in a new one, every time totally ignoring the real culprits behind the toxic situation that leaves the MBTA an unusable mess.
Not sure what it will take to break this cycle, but whatever it is it won't be pretty.
What will it take?
Well, let's consider that Western Masshole Stan Rosenberg who insists that his Northampton constituents are "subsidizing Boston" if the state pays for the overruns on the Big Dig instead of dumping them all on the T.
I would say that what needs to be done is this: the NEXT time a storm washes out everything in Western MA, Eastern MA legislators teach this ass and his ilk a lesson and block any and all aid to that area for road building until they either agree to a huge tax hike to pay for it OR they agree to stop the bullshit that is killing the T.
That is what it will take. Rubbing their noses in how urbanized areas subsidize their driving is what it will take.
i'm amazed
I'm amazed that you can keep coming up with headlines for the daily MBTA woes. Bravo!