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In a totally unrelated story
the Globe today had an article about how Paris is pretty much ready to host hundreds of thousands of guests for the Summer Olympics...presumably not all planning to be trapped on the same subway train at the same time like some potential hosts we could mention
If only
Boston, Massachusetts, and heck the United States had motivation to get Boston' transportation infrastructure up to grade by this summer.
It's amazing what a hard deadline and the threat of embarrassment does to motivate action.
If only
we were willing to expend money and effort as a society for the sake of improving peoples' lives, and not just so that a bunch of rich and powerful people don't get embarrassed in front of their rich and powerful friends.
This is how things work
The problems with the T didn't start in 2022, or even in 2015, or even in 2008, but somehow we let these things fester. If we were facing the impending Olympics, there would have been a running clock to get things done. A lot of people will clean their homes only when guests are coming over, even though it's good to clean things once a week. Same thing with infrastructure.
Oh I have no doubt
That they would have fast-tracked (as much as that term could apply when the MBTA is involved) a monorail from the airport to the Westford Velodrome and Hotel Complex. But the stuff that might have helped the region's population after the thing was over? Back-burnered, slashed and ultimately forgotten.
My argument in 2015 always was
We could pull it off. Whether or not it would be worth the cost, I did not know.
Suffice to day, the Green, Blue and Red Lines would have been in tip top shape, and that order from CRRC for new Red Line cars would be done by now, somehow.