It's only 7:30 a.m., and already three Orange Line trains have simply decided not to run anymore, at Wellington, Green Street and Community College.
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It's only 7:30 a.m., and already three Orange Line trains have simply decided not to run anymore, at Wellington, Green Street and Community College.
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Dissolve MBTA. Hire back
By anon
Thu, 03/03/2011 - 8:06am
Dissolve MBTA. Hire back needed employees at market rates. Tax the hell out of automobile users to fund respectable quality of public transit, and to pay off the Big Dig.
Ever heard of us?
By UNIONS
Thu, 03/03/2011 - 9:12am
Ever heard of us?
YAH!!
By cage
Thu, 03/03/2011 - 9:57am
Now, how about we get sensible before the un-unionized bay staters turn into cheese heads? (Not that unions and the number of employees can help 40+ year old trains that were poorly designed to begin with.)
Market Rates
By SwirlyGrrl
Thu, 03/03/2011 - 10:32am
So tell me - how much DOES a typical driver with a CDL earn in a year driving trucks and buses for private carriers?
I always hear about "paid too much", but I'm betting that T drivers don't make too much more than their driver counterparts elsewhere, especially when you consider the high cost of living in the area. (My bet is based on the kind of money that relatives who drive trucks make in cheapass boondox). What they really get from unionization is job security - frankly, so long as that doesn't mean insisting that drunkards stay on the job, I'm fine with that.
Retire after 20 years with 80%.
By Hacks Suck
Mon, 03/07/2011 - 7:52pm
Retire after 20 years with 80%. It's too much. Have to be on you cell phone running into another train before they think of asking you to quit.
The MBTA need to go chapter 7.
Answer the Question
By SwirlyGrrl
Mon, 03/07/2011 - 8:27pm
Justify the alleged cost savings versus private carrier drivers of trucks and buses or give it up.
Fire em all . . .
By Chris Dowd
Mon, 03/07/2011 - 9:32pm
. . . and bring in Temp Corp, Part Time Corp, Contractor Corp, and undocumented alien helper Corp to run everything.
. . . and I forgot Prison Corp. Inmates can do a lot of things that state employees now do- for only pennies a day!
Why won't anyone think of the trains?
By Night Owl City
Thu, 03/03/2011 - 12:44pm
Poor orange line trains, they've been working 31 years straight without a break. They need a gold watch and a rest.
Why?
By cage
Sun, 03/06/2011 - 1:49pm
They're not Union Pacific train cars.