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Once again, Red Line delays grow; not the bridge, now signals blow
By adamg on Tue, 01/26/2016 - 7:18am
The T warned riders yesterday that delays related to the reconstruction of the Longfellow Bridge would continue today. What they optimistically didn't warn riders about, however, were the signal problems between North Quincy and JFK/UMass - of the sort the Braintree line has been having for a couple of months now.
From the north, though, the trains are running well over the bridge.
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Candidates for new leadership of MBTA and DOT?...
If new leadership could be got to replace current leadership of Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority and Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Transportation who would be great candidates to consider?...
Where around the web are cameras with live moving images of the one way traffic on the Peppershaker Bridge?
Is there pretty significant
Is there pretty significant issues with DOT? I feel like they do pretty well, considering -- yeah they caused the slowdown yesterday but that was a limit of the engineering available to fix the problem. They're doing a good job with the Casey and did a good job with the Bridge Replacement project... I always felt like the MBTA might be better off if DOT just absorbed the whole agency. No?
And the SLG
SLG is a MassDOT managed project.. and it's coming along very smoothly. On Budget, and on time (for the most part)
I agree I think the MBTA needs to be folded 100% under MassDOT as a new agency. Maybe call it "MassTrans" instead. It would save the tax payers alot in administration costs, plus their pension fund and health insurance would roll into the rest of the state's fund
I'm not for breaking up the T, but it seems like this may be the only solution that will work for everyone.
No reason to rename it just
No reason to rename it just to reorganize it.
stigma by name association
That's why you would rename it. Plus in terms of inner workings, it wouldn't the same organization.
Folding may or may not work
Folding may or may not work. In a number of states the DOT is not public transit-oriented and as a result public transit budgets starve worse than the MBTA's. If they are highway-oriented they will consider building a new road long before they consider public transit. Connecticut is a good example of that. And as we can see here with Baker taking over as Governor, he changed the management at the MBTA - at least some of it, and certainly modified it. So if the government administration changes here to someone who is road-oriented, things get worse at the T, worse then they are, lines get cut back, etc, etc. So keeping it as a quasi-independent agency has its good points when looked-at over the long term - like in terms of decades.
Which would you rather have
A few days of slowdowns in train service due to new trackwork related to the Longfellow Bridge rehab. Or two years of severe delays and reroutings by closing the bridge entirely and running buses elsewhere instead?
Remember that the MBTA management was recommending the latter, and it was MassDOT management that came up with the current plan to keep trains running throughout most of the project.
Running buses instead...a lousy idea.
If that were to happen, Boston and the surrounding ciites would cease to function as real cities. Buses are no more efficient than cars in getting around this city, because the buses, too, sit in the stop-and-go traffic that's so prevalent around here.
They should've fixed the MBTA problems before they became so large.
Joshua Lionel Cowen
Joshua Lionel Cowen
(Google is your friend here).
And they wanna raise fares
And they want us to pay more for such crappy service... Fix the service first and we can talk about raising fares.
We were just rated the worst transit agency in the nation, and they are still trying to push thru a 10% or more fare increase. Raising fares won't fix the service, people! The fix needs to come from other means (like action from the state house).
Reform before revenue!
aka, we should address service deficiencies before asking T riders to pay a larger fare.
Indeed, the fare increases
Indeed, the fare increases are just to patch over a hole in the existing budget. We literally just get "more of the same" even with the fare increase.
Actually, we get "less of the
Actually, we get "less of the same" when you factor in the inevitable service cuts.