MBTA to commuter-line riders with jobs in town: You probably want to work at home on Friday

take your car to work.

The MBTA needs to be run (and funded, for once since they changed to forward funding) to be able to operate to get people to work and other obligations even if there is a big event happening. The state for years has treated the T as a neat "other" that some people use instead of an integral part of our infrastructure and economy. Bakers fiscal management control board was a political entity that did very little to improve the T (many would argue it helped do significant damage) but was good for his PR. The Globe is finally now saying his 1 billion dollar new fare technology was maybe not a great idea, especially since NYC was able to do the same on a much larger scale for much less. It would have been nice if the Globe had taken a critical eye at him instead of just telling us what a popular governor, policy wonk, tall, aw shucks guy he was. But for billionaires like the globes owner, people like Baker are great.