This is what happens when railroads are run by non-railroaders. Recently executive positions have been going to appointees, most of who have never even ridden a T train.
Exactly. I seriously doubt Steve Poftak has ever ridden the T outside of a public service stint. We know he's driving around in his BMW. Same goes for Baker.
Part of the problem is those Chinese trains on the Red and Orange Lines. Meant to replace deteriorating, worn out trains, they have often been just as bad as the cars they were supposed to replace. Effectively, the MBTA now has duplicate trainsets to maintain, neither of which is all that reliable, railworthy or efficient. Lesson: do NOT buy trains from Chinese Companies.
I hate cars and car infrastructure as much as the next person, but to be fair, MA roads are some of the worst in New England. NH does a significantly better job for example. I think MA transit is just corrupt and useless on all fronts.
@@seankelley3619 State roads get 4-5x as much state tax money as the MBTA. Spending more on the MBTA also alleviates demand on the roads, and with population growth we have to decide if we want to expand highways or expand transit
Probably because cars are highly taxed to pay for them. In fact the government collects so much tax revenue from drivers it diverts the money to subsidize mass transit.
I visited Boston in 2010 and rode the subway, and commuter rail. At that time the commuter rail was fine. However, the subway.........the rolling stock seemed grubby, maybe a tad old, and the stations (the few I used) were small, dark, low ceilinged and in desperate need of modernization and enlargement.
I went probably closer to 2014 or 2015 and you're spot on. And the NOISE was insane. Did not feel like the same city that was able to allocate tens of billions for a 1.5 mile car tunnel.
@@nonyafkinbznes1420 The federal government, via the DOT's FTA, took over safety oversight of Metrorail from 2015-2019. It was solely in regards to safety, and only with Metrorail.
The MBTA has been mismanaged for years.. Before the pandemic the system was kept afloat by increasing fares. Now that they are hemorrhaging cash it was inevitable that the system would fail.
This is what happens when you elect a governor who wants to privatized a public necessity like the T & you hire management more interested in fancy tech than running a work-horse transit system. First thing we need is to fire Poftak along with most of his managers, clean out the dead weight in middle management, end privatizing contracts & put T personnel back in stations and most importantly return to two person operation on all rapid transit lines. It's a disgrace that no in the Boston media is pushing that issue!!!!!
@@Wubzy66 The MBTA is a quasi-public agency run by the Commonwealth, not the city, the commuter rail lines' operation is handled under contract to the MBTA by Keolis under guidelines set by the MBTA & the Commonwealth.
Extend the commuter rail lines to the cape,the new Hampshire border, modernize all the switches and rolling stock,then electrify the commuter rail Also extend the schedule of at least the buses and subways so we can have a REAL nightlife in the city
A single train on fire and the feds take over DC Metro. Trains and buses regularly catch on fire in Boston, you can set your watch by the train derailments, and service disruptions are the rule not the exception. Things couldn't get much worse after they stopped running any rush hour service a few weeks ago. The MBTA is a giant institutional failure but only because the state government has failed to confront the underfunding crisis for decades on end. In Europe and Asia, public transit is a point of local pride. They demand transportation that doesn't rely on automobiles. But in the US, self-interest is what politicians pander to, and Republicans spin any public spending as wasteful even when it's as necessary as trains, bridges and plumbing. Stop voting for Republicans.
yeah that's not gonna happen dude. Who are these republicans that are against infrastructure investment. That's like one of the few places that most conservatives agree we SHOULD be using our budget. Because it is just that, an INVESTMENT, as opposed to just spending, and that's what fiscal conservatives do, they invest their money. Its all the social policies and nanny stating that's sucking all those coffers dry. You sound like you don't know what you are talking about and just repeat the same stuff you hear other politically uniformed people say.... "hurrr, republicans meanies, democrats good guys....."
@@chriskelly4299 if I sound like I don't know what I'm talking about, it's because your framing of the conversation is the same, tired non-sensical narrative that 'libertarians' and conservatives have been peddling for decades. We can keep writing checks for endless wars, if not for those dastardly starving children and people living in poverty, they're spoiled and they know it! Thanks for your input buddy but it's pretty obvious who the uninformed, shameless partisan hack here is.
@@chriskelly4299 and since you either didn't notice or don't care, the vast majority of Republicans in congress repeatedly voted agaisnt the Build Back Better Act - and now watch as you make your pitiful attempt to obfuscate and claim the bill is just pork and wasteful spending even though you literally just said fiscal conservatives are in favor of investing. You are either too dumb to know you're being lied to, or you don't care and it makes you feel superior when people with common sense get angry at the objectively naive BS that boys like you with zero credibility would have us believe.
Bruh NYC Subway is a much larger system then the Boston Subway. Yet even with it's own history of faults, you see far less derailments and crashs on the NYC subway. Crap, I can't even remember the last time there was a runaway train out here, at the very least don't have 5 of them helping in one year.
@@chriskelly4299 I've seen both Democrats and Republicans agreeing on how important Infrastructure investment is yet even before covid. You'd barely heard crap about a nation wide infrastructure reconstruction plan. Literally everywhere you go, you'll find tons of decaying bridges, power lines, roads, railways, etc.
More concerned with their inflated salaries and bonuses than upgrading the system, but in defense of the management and maintenance departments,.... they dont call it Americas oldest subway system for nothing.
You can't be serious. You want the same people who can't keep a balanced budget to run your transportation that we use to make sure we can live and make a living???? Bahahahahahaha!
I’ve lived in Boston my whole life under 10 minutes from a t station. Sadly the t still takes abysmally long so I try to avoid it when I can. I’m lucky because many people HAVE to take it. And frankly it should be the best mode of transportation in a city but it’s so sad. When I walk through jfk and see how absolutely run down it looks it’s so sad
What I would do to increase funding:tolls To increase reliability the red blue and orange lines would be automated while the commuter rail would be electrified
@@QuarioQuario54321 No it isn't, a single trip on the London Underground can cost up to £6 or $7.10 and their ridership numbers are just fine. Cheap commuters like yourself refuse to properly fund the system then wonder why it's falling apart.
Fares go up about 5% annually pre-covid while service got worse by the year. They can't even manage to improve themselves in the 2+ year of working from home, what else can be expected. sigh~ No longer have to take the T to get into the city is the best thing Covid has done.
all trains in Boston are junk, MBTA and DOT don't have any projects to compete with any place in the world to be better. That's why the traffic is getting worst.Roads merging is ridiculous making funnels and have space to make wider. We need new engineers with good view on this situation. We have to many old workers with old ideas. No solutions until someone wake up. Mr Baker sorry, you are the worse main guy on Massachusetts. We need better roads and transportation.
Take a plane to east asia and see what subway trains are like in ANY country there. Japan's GDP per capita is half of the US and China's is 1/5 of the US and we still can't build nice trains here because of corruption and lobbying.
The federal government should own all railroad. The funny thing is that even with these glaring issues, rail is still many times safer than cars. We should abandon automobile primacy and transition back to rail.
@@theimperialowl1011 When taken into perspective, vehicles traveled 325 BILLION miles in 2021. Even greater perspective is over 8,000 of those deaths were bicycles and pedestrians who likely shouldn't have been in the road in the first place.
@@nonyafkinbznes1420 You realize that you're blaming the people who have literally no protection from being killed by the people who are riding in two ton death machines, right? That's especially bad when you consider that most roads and streets have no consideration for people who can't afford a car, so a lot of poor people have to walk or cycle on the roadside, and die from it. Beyond that, it doesn't change the fact that mass transit is simply safer than cars per vehicle mile. Cars are and will always be more dangerous for one reason: they have more failure points. Each car and each driver is a potential failure point, whereas a single bus or train can take dozens of cars off the road if the system is well designed and well operated. A developed country isn't one where the poor drive, it's one where the rich take public transit.
@@theimperialowl1011 Do you blame the train when someone is hit on the tracks? They shouldn't be there. I get it, you're poor and jealous of car owners, let's change that. We should be doing everything we can to ensure anyone who needs a car has affordable access to one. Empty subway trains skew mileage safety statistics and fail to account for all the violence which proliferates around mass transit. Cities themselves are far more violent than suburbs. Get back to me when the rich trade in their private jets and chauffeurs for a bus ticket. 👍
I mean they have but it’s not a full take over but instead temporary and what they do is actually install new leadership then just leave them to their own device once they complete their own separate investigation.
@@dan9809 I mean MTA is not the worst system but not the best but of course as you have stated it is still one of the best transit system in the United States and NYCT still probably has one of the most expensive subway neck work in the world but improvement is definitely very slow in NYC and each project literally takes decades to complete compared to other cities since NYC actually has one of the most expensive infrastructure projects anywhere in the world in terms of transportation. Overall New York still has a decent transportation system but it has definitely declined since its golden age when it was actually one of the leaders in the world of transportation back then of course.
please god please just give the t money. this is what happens when you underfund a transit system for decades. a federal takeover could at least give it the money it desperately needs
Meanwhile in New York City the Subway has dealt with worse things than MBTA yet they didn't get the Federal Takeover treatment. So what am I saying here? What I'm saying is that MBTA should be extreme careful with things before these types of incidents happen
That's just... I forget the term off hand but "tilting" the track into a curve like the Belmont station is on, for trains not stopping there to have a better track speed. It always caught me off guard but it's probably been like that since before the MBTA ran the line, so pretty safe to say that's well within safe design specs.
Are you talking about the commuter rail station? What's wrong with it? I've got off there a few times and never noticed anything. The Porter Square stop seems a little crazier as the train is out of tipped to the side when it pulls into the station. Also there's a huge gap there when stepping onto the train.
I went to UMB a few years ago and riding these trains was scary. They bang around down the tracks, never a smooth ride. So many delays due to breakdowns too. I was thinking “Wow, if they don’t do some serious work on these things people are gonna get hurt.” Glad I’m done there, not a fan of that city at all.
@@dan9809 Hmmm... I don't think your comment makes sense. There's a lot that goes into the curves and banking. The problem with the US is the lack of political will to build HSR or anything public transportation related. But they'll give out tax rebates for cars. And give states money for building more highways. It's a damn shame. This country sucks. Amtrak has never been funded properly. As people believe cars equals "freedom" while don't knowing what actual freedom looks like. Freedom is choice.
Boston also has roads if you're so inclined. Personally I'd rather have a root canal than drive in Boston because it's a hard city to navigate. When the T is actually working, I find whizzing underneath all of that nonsense much nicer.
@@natalieconnolly7668 Europeans are cash poor and can't afford detached housing or private cars. Public transportation is the only option for many of them.
I would love to live somewhere that has well functioning public transport. Taking the train is so much better than sitting in traffic for hours. These problems only happen when public transit is knowingly and maliciously underfunded because all the people in power have the automobile industry's money pouring into their wallets.
This is what happens when railroads are run by non-railroaders. Recently executive positions have been going to appointees, most of who have never even ridden a T train.
Exactly. I seriously doubt Steve Poftak has ever ridden the T outside of a public service stint. We know he's driving around in his BMW. Same goes for Baker.
I agree, also I see that conrail FL9 in your profile pic.
@@LongIslandCityLayout Yes, I am an ex-con (former Conrail employee).
Part of the problem is those Chinese trains on the Red and Orange Lines. Meant to replace deteriorating, worn out trains, they have often been just as bad as the cars they were supposed to replace. Effectively, the MBTA now has duplicate trainsets to maintain, neither of which is all that reliable, railworthy or efficient. Lesson: do NOT buy trains from Chinese Companies.
That explains the idiotic plans with battery electrics instead of using overhead wires
Yet somehow the state always finds cash to maintain the highways and roads
I hate cars and car infrastructure as much as the next person, but to be fair, MA roads are some of the worst in New England. NH does a significantly better job for example. I think MA transit is just corrupt and useless on all fronts.
@@seankelley3619 State roads get 4-5x as much state tax money as the MBTA. Spending more on the MBTA also alleviates demand on the roads, and with population growth we have to decide if we want to expand highways or expand transit
They find the cash to "do work" on the highways and roads. I can assure you they are not in a state that you can call "maintained" lmao.
Probably because cars are highly taxed to pay for them. In fact the government collects so much tax revenue from drivers it diverts the money to subsidize mass transit.
"Maintain" is a strong word
I visited Boston in 2010 and rode the subway, and commuter rail. At that time the commuter rail was fine. However, the subway.........the rolling stock seemed grubby, maybe a tad old, and the stations (the few I used) were small, dark, low ceilinged and in desperate need of modernization and enlargement.
I went probably closer to 2014 or 2015 and you're spot on. And the NOISE was insane. Did not feel like the same city that was able to allocate tens of billions for a 1.5 mile car tunnel.
Maybe a stupid question, but what’s so bad about a federal takeover of the T? I’ve used DC’s public transit and it’s quite nice.
Red states would have a field day exposing their sheer incompetence.
P.S. The DC Metro is not federal.
@@nonyafkinbznes1420 The federal government, via the DOT's FTA, took over safety oversight of Metrorail from 2015-2019. It was solely in regards to safety, and only with Metrorail.
@@straightpipediesel Didn't know that, not surprising obviously. DC's city government is run by liberal dimwits.
The MBTA has been mismanaged for years.. Before the pandemic the system was kept afloat by increasing fares. Now that they are hemorrhaging cash it was inevitable that the system would fail.
This is what happens when you elect a governor who wants to privatized a public necessity like the T & you hire management more interested in fancy tech than running a work-horse transit system. First thing we need is to fire Poftak along with most of his managers, clean out the dead weight in middle management, end privatizing contracts & put T personnel back in stations and most importantly return to two person operation on all rapid transit lines. It's a disgrace that no in the Boston media is pushing that issue!!!!!
The commuter rail is run by Keolis. The T is run by the municipality. The T is a living nightmare, the CR is slightly better. I ride both every day.
@@Wubzy66 The MBTA is a quasi-public agency run by the Commonwealth, not the city, the commuter rail lines' operation is handled under contract to the MBTA by Keolis under guidelines set by the MBTA & the Commonwealth.
Extend the commuter rail lines to the cape,the new Hampshire border, modernize all the switches and rolling stock,then electrify the commuter rail
Also extend the schedule of at least the buses and subways so we can have a REAL nightlife in the city
No kidding! Catching the last train at 12:15 is a joke!
Sounds like you should be at board meetings!
Cape, yes please. NH -- the Newburyport line terminates about 7 miles from the NH border iirc. Schedule extension, YESS!
The tracks need to be replaced don’t forget
The commuter rail should go all the way to Manchester
A single train on fire and the feds take over DC Metro.
Trains and buses regularly catch on fire in Boston, you can set your watch by the train derailments, and service disruptions are the rule not the exception.
Things couldn't get much worse after they stopped running any rush hour service a few weeks ago. The MBTA is a giant institutional failure but only because the state government has failed to confront the underfunding crisis for decades on end.
In Europe and Asia, public transit is a point of local pride. They demand transportation that doesn't rely on automobiles. But in the US, self-interest is what politicians pander to, and Republicans spin any public spending as wasteful even when it's as necessary as trains, bridges and plumbing.
Stop voting for Republicans.
yeah that's not gonna happen dude. Who are these republicans that are against infrastructure investment. That's like one of the few places that most conservatives agree we SHOULD be using our budget. Because it is just that, an INVESTMENT, as opposed to just spending, and that's what fiscal conservatives do, they invest their money. Its all the social policies and nanny stating that's sucking all those coffers dry. You sound like you don't know what you are talking about and just repeat the same stuff you hear other politically uniformed people say.... "hurrr, republicans meanies, democrats good guys....."
@@chriskelly4299 if I sound like I don't know what I'm talking about, it's because your framing of the conversation is the same, tired non-sensical narrative that 'libertarians' and conservatives have been peddling for decades.
We can keep writing checks for endless wars, if not for those dastardly starving children and people living in poverty, they're spoiled and they know it!
Thanks for your input buddy but it's pretty obvious who the uninformed, shameless partisan hack here is.
@@chriskelly4299 and since you either didn't notice or don't care, the vast majority of Republicans in congress repeatedly voted agaisnt the Build Back Better Act - and now watch as you make your pitiful attempt to obfuscate and claim the bill is just pork and wasteful spending even though you literally just said fiscal conservatives are in favor of investing. You are either too dumb to know you're being lied to, or you don't care and it makes you feel superior when people with common sense get angry at the objectively naive BS that boys like you with zero credibility would have us believe.
Bruh NYC Subway is a much larger system then the Boston Subway. Yet even with it's own history of faults, you see far less derailments and crashs on the NYC subway. Crap, I can't even remember the last time there was a runaway train out here, at the very least don't have 5 of them helping in one year.
@@chriskelly4299 I've seen both Democrats and Republicans agreeing on how important Infrastructure investment is yet even before covid. You'd barely heard crap about a nation wide infrastructure reconstruction plan. Literally everywhere you go, you'll find tons of decaying bridges, power lines, roads, railways, etc.
More concerned with their inflated salaries and bonuses than upgrading the system, but in defense of the management and maintenance departments,.... they dont call it Americas oldest subway system for nothing.
Maybe this will be a good thing? Conrail was pretty successful.
Yes yes please federal takeover I really really want a federal takeover
You can't be serious. You want the same people who can't keep a balanced budget to run your transportation that we use to make sure we can live and make a living???? Bahahahahahaha!
@@jhamilton1007 Well yeah I want more fund into public transportation
@@MattyAviation Start by raising fares.
@@nonyafkinbznes1420 They've been going up for a while and nothings changed
@@MattyAviation Not enough, $2.40 is too low for a progressive city like Boston. Fares need to be at least 2-3x higher to properly fund the system.
I’ve lived in Boston my whole life under 10 minutes from a t station. Sadly the t still takes abysmally long so I try to avoid it when I can. I’m lucky because many people HAVE to take it. And frankly it should be the best mode of transportation in a city but it’s so sad. When I walk through jfk and see how absolutely run down it looks it’s so sad
What I would do to increase funding:tolls
To increase reliability the red blue and orange lines would be automated while the commuter rail would be electrified
Oooooo I’m hypnotizing you to want a federal takeover ooooooo
@@dan9809 this would encourage them to use it while we pay more to all the outsiders who probably don’t know.
@@QuarioQuario54321 $2.40 is absurdly low for a progressive city like Boston. Fares should be at least 2-3x higher to properly fund the system.
@@nonyafkinbznes1420 Low fares keep people onboard. And by world standards $2.40 is actually very high.
@@QuarioQuario54321 No it isn't, a single trip on the London Underground can cost up to £6 or $7.10 and their ridership numbers are just fine. Cheap commuters like yourself refuse to properly fund the system then wonder why it's falling apart.
Fares go up about 5% annually pre-covid while service got worse by the year. They can't even manage to improve themselves in the 2+ year of working from home, what else can be expected. sigh~ No longer have to take the T to get into the city is the best thing Covid has done.
all trains in Boston are junk, MBTA and DOT don't have any projects to compete with any place in the world to be better. That's why the traffic is getting worst.Roads merging is ridiculous making funnels and have space to make wider. We need new engineers with good view on this situation. We have to many old workers with old ideas. No solutions until someone wake up. Mr Baker sorry, you are the worse main guy on Massachusetts. We need better roads and transportation.
Wonder if those trains have conductors
We are the problem and the solution
uh hello, where are you guys in NYC?
Some one needs to do something
I always wanted to visit Boston because it reminds me of nyc with having a Subway but this looks dangerous
Take a plane to east asia and see what subway trains are like in ANY country there. Japan's GDP per capita is half of the US and China's is 1/5 of the US and we still can't build nice trains here because of corruption and lobbying.
its almost like an underfunded agency with management that has never written a train is going to have serious issues but no that can't be it.
Fares need to be at least 2-3x higher. Riders have to do their part in funding infrastructure improvements.
#MakeStevePoftakRidetheT
#FireStevePoftak
Someone should be getting fired... why isn't anyone getting fired...
Someone should be held responsible for this mismanagement.
wow this is really unfortunate to see as I myself have riden these trains for many years
The federal government should own all railroad. The funny thing is that even with these glaring issues, rail is still many times safer than cars. We should abandon automobile primacy and transition back to rail.
No it isn't. Mass transit is plagued with crime and violence.
@@nonyafkinbznes1420 Ah yes, unlike the roads that kill 40,000 people a year through traffic violence. Those are clearly the superior option.
@@theimperialowl1011 When taken into perspective, vehicles traveled 325 BILLION miles in 2021. Even greater perspective is over 8,000 of those deaths were bicycles and pedestrians who likely shouldn't have been in the road in the first place.
@@nonyafkinbznes1420 You realize that you're blaming the people who have literally no protection from being killed by the people who are riding in two ton death machines, right? That's especially bad when you consider that most roads and streets have no consideration for people who can't afford a car, so a lot of poor people have to walk or cycle on the roadside, and die from it. Beyond that, it doesn't change the fact that mass transit is simply safer than cars per vehicle mile. Cars are and will always be more dangerous for one reason: they have more failure points. Each car and each driver is a potential failure point, whereas a single bus or train can take dozens of cars off the road if the system is well designed and well operated. A developed country isn't one where the poor drive, it's one where the rich take public transit.
@@theimperialowl1011 Do you blame the train when someone is hit on the tracks? They shouldn't be there. I get it, you're poor and jealous of car owners, let's change that. We should be doing everything we can to ensure anyone who needs a car has affordable access to one.
Empty subway trains skew mileage safety statistics and fail to account for all the violence which proliferates around mass transit. Cities themselves are far more violent than suburbs.
Get back to me when the rich trade in their private jets and chauffeurs for a bus ticket. 👍
Has a transit agency in the USA ever been taken over by the federal government
i dont think so
I mean they have but it’s not a full take over but instead temporary and what they do is actually install new leadership then just leave them to their own device once they complete their own separate investigation.
Ever heard of Amtrak?
@@nonyafkinbznes1420 my grandma uses Amtrak from Omaha Nebraska to get to Denver
Everyone they but in charge of the T is a friendly political appointment.
It’s the number one worst major metro system currently and the nyc mta is still in the top ten,one of the most safe is the San Francisco Bart trains
@@dan9809
I mean MTA is not the worst system but not the best but of course as you have stated it is still one of the best transit system in the United States and NYCT still probably has one of the most expensive subway neck work in the world but improvement is definitely very slow in NYC and each project literally takes decades to complete compared to other cities since NYC actually has one of the most expensive infrastructure projects anywhere in the world in terms of transportation.
Overall New York still has a decent transportation system but it has definitely declined since its golden age when it was actually one of the leaders in the world of transportation back then of course.
And I think the cta js bad, at least our trains and busses don't catch on fire and fail regularly
please god please just give the t money. this is what happens when you underfund a transit system for decades. a federal takeover could at least give it the money it desperately needs
Meanwhile in New York City the Subway has dealt with worse things than MBTA yet they didn't get the Federal Takeover treatment. So what am I saying here? What I'm saying is that MBTA should be extreme careful with things before these types of incidents happen
Coincidence or conspiracy?
The T is awesome
Lmfaooo yeah okay
Yeah it’s awesome with all the closures/ delays and trains catching fire and derailing. You make total sense.
What about the Belmont stop on the purple line, that shit has you tipping over I’m supprize it hasn’t happen yet
That's just... I forget the term off hand but "tilting" the track into a curve like the Belmont station is on, for trains not stopping there to have a better track speed. It always caught me off guard but it's probably been like that since before the MBTA ran the line, so pretty safe to say that's well within safe design specs.
That stop has me bugging, I’ll brace too tip every time
Are you talking about the commuter rail station? What's wrong with it? I've got off there a few times and never noticed anything. The Porter Square stop seems a little crazier as the train is out of tipped to the side when it pulls into the station. Also there's a huge gap there when stepping onto the train.
There will be no changes if Brandon will take over the T, make no mistake about.
Bye bye Keolis
Keolis sucks! I take the Newburyport Line every day and it's always delayed due to a signal issue. Ran better before the merger in my opinion.
Thanks mayor wu
MBTA does not report to the mayor
@@VinceMcLennon Not to mention the fact that the problems the MBTA is having have been going on far longer than she's been mayor.
If those busses were electric they would have been completely destroyed possibly the fire would have spread to other busses
As opposed to historically fireproof gasoline?
Lol 😂 bs
If they were electric they wouldn’t have been on fire in the first place.. remember that burning dinosaurs is the alternative
I went to UMB a few years ago and riding these trains was scary. They bang around down the tracks, never a smooth ride. So many delays due to breakdowns too. I was thinking “Wow, if they don’t do some serious work on these things people are gonna get hurt.”
Glad I’m done there, not a fan of that city at all.
Amtrak should take over the T
There is no difference between mbta and amtrak. Both are fully funded by state and federal governments.
@@dan9809 We could say the same about Japan’s military. They need help from us when it comes to military
No they themselves don’t turn a profit
@@dan9809 Hmmm... I don't think your comment makes sense. There's a lot that goes into the curves and banking. The problem with the US is the lack of political will to build HSR or anything public transportation related. But they'll give out tax rebates for cars. And give states money for building more highways. It's a damn shame. This country sucks.
Amtrak has never been funded properly. As people believe cars equals "freedom" while don't knowing what actual freedom looks like. Freedom is choice.
Forget AMTRAK, hire the STM of Montreal or the RATP of Paris - both have well run metros that don't screech when you go around curves!
Lmao
And guess who the feds are?
If I lived somewhere that I had to rely on taking subway trains everywhere to get around... I would MOVE.
Why? Boston is the exception and not the rule, especially if you look at how European cities handle public transportation.
@@natalieconnolly7668 Public transportation is for the smelly butthole of society.
Boston also has roads if you're so inclined. Personally I'd rather have a root canal than drive in Boston because it's a hard city to navigate.
When the T is actually working, I find whizzing underneath all of that nonsense much nicer.
@@natalieconnolly7668 Europeans are cash poor and can't afford detached housing or private cars. Public transportation is the only option for many of them.
I would love to live somewhere that has well functioning public transport. Taking the train is so much better than sitting in traffic for hours. These problems only happen when public transit is knowingly and maliciously underfunded because all the people in power have the automobile industry's money pouring into their wallets.