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Red Line ride is once more a slog, it's like the line fell in a bog
By adamg on Tue, 10/25/2016 - 8:11am
The morning commute started with a non-viable train at Quincy Center. Just as that was clearing up, things slowed to a crawl again on the Braintree line due to signal problems at JFK/UMass.
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T workers protesting this morning
Saw them at South Station trying to bring attention to privatization. Yesterday's performance along with today's isn't creating a strong case for them.
It is about priorities.
Privatization sounds like a good thing to me, but it is bewildering why the administration prioritised other things ahead of making sure the trains work on a daily basis.
I don't see how this is an
I don't see how this is an issue with labor. If the program were properly funded (e.g. regular maintenance and not emergency only), we would have less of this fire drills. The system is rotten from the core, starting with Baker's drive towards privatizing a public service.
I formerly worked for an outsourcing company that specialized in office services. The company was only driven by the profits to the shareholders. Employees suffered as did the programs. The site I formerly ran has had six managers in six years. I was the longest with two years leading the site.
Privitization is not the answer. Outsourcing and privatizing extract wealth from the people and consolidate it with a few.
At South Station This Morning
Did you also notice that they took a van to South Station and not the T? They also parked on the sidewalk. (Around 8:50)
One guy who had a red Canadian transit union jacket on said "Wow, the people just keep coming out of (South Station)" as they were trying to move the van off of the sidewalk. Kudos to remembering why people are coming out of South Station, they commute.
Once again, I am against privatization of most MBTA services, They need reform. However, if you are not going to patronize the one thing you are trying to save, you are fast turning into a hypocrite.
This is the T equivalent of people with make America Great Again stickers on their Japanese cars.
No trespassing?
I wonder if they wanted to avoid accusations of trespassing or disrupting service, or avoid encountering T police as they conducted their protest. Staying off the T was probably a safer bet for them.
It will get better once the
It will get better once the money room is working like a well oiled machine.
I just can't believe how
I just can't believe how awful the red line is lately. I am stalled or stuck EVERY day. Can't ANYONE do ANYTHING to fix this???
I feel like the 2014 Winter
I feel like the 2014 Winter of Doom gave the pro-austerity crew the excuse they needed to make this dysfunction the new normal and grind services into the ground until everyone except the most dependent riders gives up on our transit system. It's shock capitalism, really, as Naomi Klein writes about.
Got a mirror?
Got a phone?
Call your reps. Keep calling them. Encourage others to call them.
We also need an initiative petition to strip all the reps of free parking privileges. Make them pay $30 per day going rate in that neighborhood.