And So It Goes With the MBTA

So as you know, the Massachusetts Public transit system was 100% shut down yesterday. I got to talking to a friend at work, and he’s a recent transplant to the commonwealth. He pointed out that the weather was indeed bad, so he wasn’t surprised that things were messed up.

I agreed, and I said that I’d be perfectly comfortable with the system having delays and cancelled trains, or the system shutting down for a day so crews could better service the system, or limited schedules….but not ALL of those things at once.

Yep, we got EVERYTHING! Tuesday the whole system was shut down. Today the schedule was hacked down to a skeleton of trains…and those trains were delayed and cancelled.

After waiting for a train for an hour with the Mrs. I expressed concerns about heading into the city, as the baby still needed to be picked up at daycare at the end of the day. I decided to head home and take the day off…I was about 100 yards away when my phone beeped. The wife informed me the train was officially on it’s way.

I debated, and narrowly decided to take the train. I spent a VERY abbreviated day in the lab, and grabbed one of the early trains out of the city without incident.

Not so much for the Mrs. She missed the train that was about an hour after mine (note this was the next train to leave Boston due to the abbreviated schedule), but since so many trains were cut, even tho she was there early, there wasn’t even standing room left on the train! So she didn’t even get home until around 7pm.

What a disaster! Thankfully something has been done!

MBTA General Manager Beverly Scott announced Wednesday that she will resign this April after an embattled couple of weeks for the transportation agency.

In a resignation letter, Scott said she would ensure a “smooth transition” and work with the MassDOT Board of Directors to help find her replacement over the next 60 days. Her final day in office will be April 11.

“It goes without saying that the MassDOT Board and the new Administration can count on me to stay fully engaged throughout this period,” she wrote.

This was rank incompetence! I’m glad to see her go.

I’m glad to see her go…my only regrets is she won’t be stuck in the pillory for me to throw rotting fruit at her!

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