The Globe provides the latest estimate from the T on the first of the new Orange Line cars that have been undergoing testing more extensive than the T had hoped due to some signaling software issues.
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By cybah
Mon, 06/03/2019 - 1:05pm
n/t
Glitchs = Patronage F-ups. Pollack = Garanin
By anon
Mon, 06/03/2019 - 5:13pm
Skilled transportation leadership would have planned for glitches two years out. Pollack made the same f-up a few weeks ago when she didn't consider new tech in the S-O-G-R budgeting -leading to a two billion plus increase. I talked with a few engineers who had to correct Pollack's budget and asked what the meetings are like with her. The response. Pollack is Garanin from the Chernobyl miniseries. Deep but accurate. Pretty much explains Boston transportation since 2015.
One could argue
By Waquiot
Mon, 06/03/2019 - 8:05pm
That the MBTA, in not putting potentially unsafe trains into service, are doing the exact opposite of what management at Chernobyl did.
Also, Pollack is not in charge of the MBTA. She runs MassDOT.
The MBTA ...
By adamg
Tue, 06/04/2019 - 7:21am
Is part of MassDOT.
Yeah, but
By Waquiot
Tue, 06/04/2019 - 9:33am
The MBTA is an agency on its own.
Now, if the anon were to get off his Pollack hating kick and start pissing on the GM of the T, he'd have half a point (the part where the T's deferring to safety being akin to the honchos at Chernobyl ignoring safety being as far from a good point as possible) since the GM of the T would be the person most responsible for the T not knowing what their maintenance backlog is. Pollack's job is to make sure the GM of the T is doing his job.
Big differences between Pollack-Ramirez : Pollack-Poftak
By anon
Tue, 06/04/2019 - 2:15pm
When Ramirez was there, he didn't do anything. That was on purpose. Pollack ran the MBTA while Ramirez sat there like a lump. When Poftak replaced Ramirez. Things changed. With every passing month Poftak is releasing reports on each mistake Pollack made during the Ramirez era. We're talking billions in mistakes.
Confusing
By statler
Mon, 06/03/2019 - 2:57pm
Why was the Globe reporting on the Orange Line? It doesn't run through Rhode Island.
Hah
By adamg
Mon, 06/03/2019 - 4:03pm
So I guess I'm not the only one who noticed the Rhode Island news is a lot higher up on the Globe home page than the "Metro" section.
It's on purpose
By statler
Mon, 06/03/2019 - 4:11pm
Apparently they are doing a thing. :rolleyes:
Not sure what's new about
By DTP
Mon, 06/03/2019 - 4:01pm
Not sure what's new about this?
The T has been saying summer since March 25 or so.
I guess now it's "mid-summer" instead of just "summer"?
Notably absent
By BostonDog
Mon, 06/03/2019 - 4:04pm
Which year this "summer" refers to.
In March they did say "summer 2019"
By Ari O
Mon, 06/03/2019 - 6:28pm
Now its just "summer"
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