@@mr_mhg91ah yes her ability to govern is surely correlated with who she's attracted to! and any thoughts on baker's handling of the T? or is it fine because he's heterosexual?
Hopefully firing all those people who worked in Wisconsin and Florida is doing something. No way you can do your job well halfway across the country when your job is working in public transportation.
I've traveled to and from boston to Brockton for 12 years and each time it takes me 3 hours do to the slow zones when it took me 1 55 minutes thanks to the shortage of employees and a system that blame slow speed on their lack of interest towards the public with the laziness and toilet services
another decade at the current pace and line sections will need to be closed outright. the subway portion of MBTA should be privatized before neglect and incompotence leaves the system unrepairable.
lmao because rail privatization has worked great everywhere its been tried (countless people lost service and existing services became inefficient and uncompetitive)
No! The last thing you need is to privatize it! A for-profit private entity will have no other incentive but to focus on cutting cost and raise prices to gain a profit and take advantage as a monopoly, that will only bring more problems of its own, it never works. Public services are public for a reason, they are not to be ran as a business, public transit needs to operate internally "at a lose" because its real value is to facilitate people be economically productive elsewhere and that way the state generates tax revenue (which in turn more than pays for the cost of maintaining the transit), a private company would only realize that there's not much money to be made off of public transport and at the end they would either have to get subsidized by the state government to keep it functional anyway (which is a waste of state money since you're just giving free money to investors on top of maintenance cost) or have the system be a very luxury commodity, at which point the purpose of the public transport is lost completely. No privatization! Terrible idea!t The MBTA just needs more funding from the state
Privatising public transport is a horrible idea and does not work. Case 1: The UK The rail network was privatised under a franchise system. Maintenance of the infrastructure was also privatised under Railtrack. End result, more expensive fares, worse service, woeful reliability (like the May 2018 timetable chaos), and several accidents resulting from the failure of the track maintenance company. Privatised rail operators repeatedly failed to meet performance targets and operated at a loss, resulting in an operator merry-go-round. The government ended up having to re-nationalise the track maintenance company because of how poorly it was performing and the safety issues it created. Many of the franchises are slowly being renationalised after the private operator pulled out. Case 2: Melbourne Trams and trains were privatised out, again under a franchise system. End result, half of the operators pulled out because of funding issues and the other operators took over. The state government ended up having to give the private operators more subsidies. Woeful reliability (see 2009 heatwave effects), extreme overcrowding and not enough investment in new rolling stock. Case 3: US Railroads Most of the track in the USA is owned and operated by 4 private companies: NS, CSX, BNSF, UP End result, extremely poor track maintenance, little to no investment in the infrastructure (such as electrification), constricting capacity by single-tracking the busiest lines, and a litany of accidents resulting from neglecting maintenance. Amtrak trains keep getting delayed and the entire reason Amtrak existed in the first place was that the private railroads wanted to drop passenger service because it was unprofitable. It's called public transport for a reason.
The mbta is criminally underfunded, and they were forced to take on debt from the big dig, which they are still forced to pay off.
Obviously the MBTA shares the blame, but how much blame does the state government also share?
State wants the Indigo line to happen. The governor slows everything.
our lesbian governor is doing an awful job.
@@mr_mhg91ah yes her ability to govern is surely correlated with who she's attracted to! and any thoughts on baker's handling of the T? or is it fine because he's heterosexual?
@@mr_mhg91your governor is awful already, no wonder she can’t fund an important subway network
this happened to wmata dc then summers of shutdown began with repairs on rails and another one with platform replacement and now it seems to be better
And did they ever return? no they never returned and their fate is still unlearned.
Can't they just replace track? I've seen that done in a few days in some other cities.
Fun Fact: I asked a track inspector this same question, and their answer was, "We don't want to lose the gauge."
This former Red Line rider is now a commuter rail customer. It cost me double, but it's not wasting my time anymore.
Hopefully firing all those people who worked in Wisconsin and Florida is doing something. No way you can do your job well halfway across the country when your job is working in public transportation.
And now we know the tracks on the greenline extension are too narrow.
Just fix them and spare us the explanations!
They need so much more funding than what they get...
Wmata is faster when on a heat slowdown.
Sullivan square to community college sucks
I've traveled to and from boston to Brockton for 12 years and each time it takes me 3 hours do to the slow zones when it took me 1 55 minutes thanks to the shortage of employees and a system that blame slow speed on their lack of interest towards the public with the laziness and toilet services
Dirty and useless vehicles on some of the subway lines and plagued with pestilence and people sleeping in the cars
Can you get a narrator who doesn’t speak like AI speech pls
another decade at the current pace and line sections will need to be closed outright. the subway portion of MBTA should be privatized before neglect and incompotence leaves the system unrepairable.
lmao because rail privatization has worked great everywhere its been tried (countless people lost service and existing services became inefficient and uncompetitive)
That's the stupidest thing i've ever heard
No! The last thing you need is to privatize it! A for-profit private entity will have no other incentive but to focus on cutting cost and raise prices to gain a profit and take advantage as a monopoly, that will only bring more problems of its own, it never works. Public services are public for a reason, they are not to be ran as a business, public transit needs to operate internally "at a lose" because its real value is to facilitate people be economically productive elsewhere and that way the state generates tax revenue (which in turn more than pays for the cost of maintaining the transit), a private company would only realize that there's not much money to be made off of public transport and at the end they would either have to get subsidized by the state government to keep it functional anyway (which is a waste of state money since you're just giving free money to investors on top of maintenance cost) or have the system be a very luxury commodity, at which point the purpose of the public transport is lost completely. No privatization! Terrible idea!t The MBTA just needs more funding from the state
open a history book
Privatising public transport is a horrible idea and does not work.
Case 1: The UK
The rail network was privatised under a franchise system. Maintenance of the infrastructure was also privatised under Railtrack.
End result, more expensive fares, worse service, woeful reliability (like the May 2018 timetable chaos), and several accidents resulting from the failure of the track maintenance company. Privatised rail operators repeatedly failed to meet performance targets and operated at a loss, resulting in an operator merry-go-round. The government ended up having to re-nationalise the track maintenance company because of how poorly it was performing and the safety issues it created. Many of the franchises are slowly being renationalised after the private operator pulled out.
Case 2: Melbourne
Trams and trains were privatised out, again under a franchise system.
End result, half of the operators pulled out because of funding issues and the other operators took over. The state government ended up having to give the private operators more subsidies. Woeful reliability (see 2009 heatwave effects), extreme overcrowding and not enough investment in new rolling stock.
Case 3: US Railroads
Most of the track in the USA is owned and operated by 4 private companies: NS, CSX, BNSF, UP
End result, extremely poor track maintenance, little to no investment in the infrastructure (such as electrification), constricting capacity by single-tracking the busiest lines, and a litany of accidents resulting from neglecting maintenance. Amtrak trains keep getting delayed and the entire reason Amtrak existed in the first place was that the private railroads wanted to drop passenger service because it was unprofitable.
It's called public transport for a reason.