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One bus hits another in South Boston

Collided buses in South Boston

Plutor spotted the aftermath of a collision on East Broadway at O Street around 8 a.m.

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It was just a few days ago that Faker said the T is safe because "accidents happen on the highway too".

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The underfunded and poorly managed MBTA needs to do a lot better in general with it's safety measures. That being said, I'm not sure this picture of a fender bender is a good example of the dangers of riding the T.

I'm betting driving a personal car is much, much more dangerous.

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You’re going to need to provide proof. Two years ago they said they have enough money and can’t figure out how to spend it.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/editorials/2019/07/08/the-mbta-says-...

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Charlie Baker, the guy who hates public transportation and was responsible for saddling the T with generational debt from the Big Dig? The guy who let infrastructure crumble all across the T? You don't think they could've spent money to repair a decrepit stairway at JFK? You don't think they could've accelerated the anti-collision system on the green line that the feds demanded more than 10 years ago.

Forgive me if I don't take the fiscal decisions of him and his team at face value regarding the T. Part of the poor management I mentioned earlier is saying they can't come up with ways to spend money to improve the T....while they're raising fares and cutting service.

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Show me.

I don’t know why they didn’t fix the stairwell at JFK, but it sounds like it wasn’t because of a lack of funding.

I totally agree with you re-the management sucking. No argument there.

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n/t

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I am not sure that stairwell falls under the MBTA or that's massdot. I'm almost positive its massdot who owns it, its part of the bridge.

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Statistics please.

Motor vehicle collision deaths are entirely normalized to the point that you don't notice them.

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That driver passed the final test and can now be promoted to Green Line operator. /s

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It's not clear why the busses collided. Recently there was a well reported and depressing article in the Washington post about a bus driver in Denver and how horrible she is treated by passengers on her route.

If a passenger was harassing the MBTA driver (as is often the case in Denver) I wouldn't be critical if they had an accident like the one photographed above.

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It seems that no bikes were injured in creating this accident, so at least there is a small silver lining.

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… on that bike rack that was knocked off.
That would really suck for the owner.
I guess there is no info yet about passenger or driver injuries.

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At the bike shop:

"What the hell happened here?"
"Got hit by a bus. Couple of buses, actually. Amazingly, I was fine."

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Filling between two bulky rolls.

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