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Trolley's wheels slip off the tracks; riders want to give it 40 whacks
By adamg on Mon, 08/17/2015 - 1:52pm
Off-the-rails B trolley. Photo by John Battaglino.
UPDATE: Service restored at 3:30 p.m.
The T is telling B Line riders to take the 57 bus instead between Kenmore Square and Packards Corner, due to a trolley with wheels that no longer fully rest on the tracks.
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Transit advocates like screwing the public
First, they want to force the public into using public transit. How, you ask? Create parking shortages. It and high parking prices are what makes people use public transit. When parking is too available and affordable, they complain, cities like Atlanta can't get people to use public transit instead of driving!
http://clatl.com/atlanta/atlantas-parking-addiction/Content?oid=15097198
Once there is a parking shortage, the public is screwed. They can be blackmailed into pouring money into the black hole of public transit and public transit unions and pensions.
Only fools will keep voting for politicians which allow continued reductions in parking and vehicle lane miles. Its money in developers and union workers pockets and suffering for commuters.
Oh, Markk
Sometimes you can be SO cute.
You do realize that those tracks (well, probably not those particular tracks, but tracks laid in that area) predate the internal combustion engine's use on vehicles.
So, unless you are in the pocket of the horse lobby, or as I like to call them "big horse," your comment in odder than usual. I mean, are you just dying for someone to come out and make the claim that the auto industry bankrupted the streetcar lines as part of their plan to sell more cars (a claim with some merit, but the evidence shows that the move towards personal vehicles had already begun before the time period when this is alleged to occur)?
He can't help it...
...he's just so jealous of Milwaukee:
http://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2015/07/transportation-infrastructu...
Empire building of all sorts
Politicians just want to build new things and it doesn't seem to matter to them if its high speed rail, road, or transit, as long as they look good for it. No glory in doing doing needed maintenance, so that always goes to the bottom of the priority list, be it for the MBTA, or Wisconsin's roads.
"...Wisconsin spent only 39 percent of its highway dollars on maintenance, versus 61 percent on new highway capacity that added to its maintenance backlog. As the state has shifted resources into freeway megaprojects, 71 percent of its roads are in mediocre or poor condition..."
In Massachusetts, its the roads getting the maintenance and the MBTA that's gotten the shiny station makeovers, added features, and service expansions, while maintenance and snow preparedness lagged.