Planning? What's "Planning"?Sheesh, Boston is really falling apart (granted, Chicago shut down our Green Line for a renovation project, but it wasn't nearly in such dire circumstances as Boston and it's mostly paralleled by other lines and was planned in advance).
If you listen carefully to the Governor he hints the Feds ordered the shutdown.
Failure to Plan is Planning to Fail!Planning? What's "Planning"?
I know Anna Seda and those musicians.
They honestly had no idea it would blow up like this.
The next months in Boston are going to be a ****show. Probably the biggest transport disaster in the country atm.
Hmm, sounds familiar. And here I thought only Amtrak had that issue.It's weird how over the past few years several major cities have had to shut down their systems, at least in part/some lines, because the deferred maintenance or workforce was so bad that it impacted safety.
I wonder if and/or when this problem will be hitting the airlines, trucking, and freight rail industry.Hmm, sounds familiar. And here I thought only Amtrak had that issue.
Where are you getting the idea this isn't already happening?I wonder if and/or when this problem will be hitting the airlines, trucking, and freight rail industry.
Not weird IMO considering the way we fund and manage our infrastructure.It's weird how over the past few years several major cities have had to shut down their systems, at least in part/some lines, because the deferred maintenance or workforce was so bad that it impacted safety.
It's weird how over the past few years several major cities have had to shut down their systems, at least in part/some lines, because the deferred maintenance or workforce was so bad that it impacted safety.
The report did not mince words thankfully
The person who is almost certain to be the next Governor has already pledged she will clean house at the T in her first day of office.
From a quick read of the Safety Management Inspection report, it seems the main problem is that they don't have enough workers to handle both the regular operations and maintenance work and all the new capital projects they're doing. They have the money budgeted for the additional workers, but they're having trouble hiring them. It seems like there are some structural reasons for the shortage, such as a too-large contingent of their workforce being at or near retirement age. There may also be some cultural or management issues with the way they handle new hires, such as a preference to hire from within, and a system where new workers are essentially part-time trainees for two years or so working at a totally inadequate rate of pay for a city as expensive as Boston. This might tend to discourage people from applying for the available jobs.This page has links to PDFs of the full 90-page report and special directives:
https://www.transit.dot.gov/regulat...t-inspection-massachusetts-bay-transportation
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