by charlesriverbranch
Riding the Red and Orange Lines lately, I get the distinct impression that despite the best efforts of successive MBTA managements, the system continues to deteriorate. Waiting for a Red Line train at South Station the other day, I found myself waiting ridiculously long for a train that, when it arrived, crept into the station not much faster than walking speed. From there to Broadway it repeatedly stopped, started, moved a few feet, and stopped again. After five or six iterations of this, it crept along at a walking pace and eventually got to Broadway, after which it got somewhat faster.
A friend called me last weekend in a panicked mood because the Orange Line was once again not running, and it wasn't clear how she could get home to Malden. It turned out that while the Oak Grove platform at North Station was blocked off, she had to go to the Forest Hills platform, where trains were running backwards to Malden.
This is after the month-long Orange Line shutdown in August. It never seems to end.
So, let's fire all these people, lock stock and barrel, and bring some people in from elsewhere in the world where they know how to run a transit system. Form a new agency, or prinatize, or whatever: just get rid of these idiots. What say, everyone?
A friend called me last weekend in a panicked mood because the Orange Line was once again not running, and it wasn't clear how she could get home to Malden. It turned out that while the Oak Grove platform at North Station was blocked off, she had to go to the Forest Hills platform, where trains were running backwards to Malden.
This is after the month-long Orange Line shutdown in August. It never seems to end.
So, let's fire all these people, lock stock and barrel, and bring some people in from elsewhere in the world where they know how to run a transit system. Form a new agency, or prinatize, or whatever: just get rid of these idiots. What say, everyone?