Wow. What an absolutely bad joke this is. Apparently it's SO important to have diversity and a WOMAN for the job that they just HAD to pluck a black woman with glaring ineptitude and lack of credentials who most certainly sounds like the most ILL-suited candidate for the MBTA GM. OK - impossible to work with and alienating. Something was VERY awry down there for her to be forced to go to counseling to 'improve management style'. Usually this alone brings job termination (which is no doubt what they wanted to impose but were afraid to for obvious reasons) but this unprofessional hack is ALSO wildly inept at controlling budgets. Yeah, an absolute egregiously bad pick for an already unprofessional and fiscally out-of-control MBTA. But hey, it IS more important to hire a BLACK WOMAN than hiring someone capable for MBTA's GM to fulfill diversity and Davey's promise to hire a female. This whole thing just STINKS all around. Amazing to what lengths politicians will go to please certain groups. Deval is just completely sinking the MBTA to please his 'people'. This whole thing stinks of affirmative action run-amuck.

Here is another decision that feeds into those who attack the role of government.  Our leaders seem to go out of their way to undermine government's credibility by being lazy and inept. No wonder there is such a resistance to increasing taxes.  In short, what we have here is a total lack of due diligence on the part of all involved in order to meet the dictate of the governor's office. Who by the way was hardly around when this process was underway. So now the tax payers, riders and employees are in the hands of someone who MARTA was happy to see leave.

when one finds judge crater , one will than at least in this county , city and state will find oversight, accountability and ya, scrutiny. you will however find bribery extortion and silence on a grand theft scale. and this half pint governor has dreams of being our commander in whatever someday. in his dreams and our worst nightmares. ma

Interesting that in a state with an almost constant stream of serial discoveries of corruption and incompetence that counseling is viewed as (apparently, per the article) almost a complete negative. Perhaps if those who have gone down in disgrace had had counseling they might have done a better job. Perhaps those who are still there, wheeling a dealing, and not yet had their corruption and/or incompetence come to light, might, in the future, not have gone down the tubes had they had counseling. Of course, counseling can be good or corrupt just like anything else, so it needs to come from a high quality provider.

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This is just another example of the unconscious assumption that one hires "good people" and then you don't question or monitor them much and they run things as they see fit -- a fundamentally flawed Mass-inspried approach. How do you get to transparency and content-based continuous improvement in a state where noble principles as so often just wndow dressing for self-dealing?  You inexorably pursue the transparency process and defend vigorously against attempts to use the information gain in a way that blows it up out of context.

Why are we hiring another potential, inept, unstable loser for a leadership position in Ma.? Haven't we yet learned a lesson

since Carol Johnson was hired to head BPS dept.?

Is this another favor for a friend? Ma. has had enough of terrible decision making by our state government. Deval Patrick

has been a nightmare as a governor. Who is responsible for this out of state terrible choice to lead our  transit? As you know, we will buy now and pay later for choosing Scott.

The selection process is a shame and the new MBTA director was hired based only on race. Her prior job heading Atlanta shows her incompetence - this makes her highly qualified for a top job in MA State government. We have still not seen any heads roll at the Dept of Public Health. Do not believe Patrick or the legislative when they urge fare or tax increases - any deficits should come out of their own pockets due to gross mismanagement and incompetence.

Cue the ministers' press conference...

Exactly what DO the hiring committees look for?  This story reads like deja vu all over again when it comes to government jobs in MA.

I was born and raised in New York City and have spent my adult life in Boston so I am a life long user of public transportation. I never experienced any problems with subways or buses in these cities. It is only on my one trip to Atlanta with my granddaughter to visit the newly opened Georgia Aquarium that I experienced a harrowing incident on MARTA, the Atlanta subway overseen by Beverly Scott. On a crowded subway en route to the airport, a deranged woman who had put her infant on the floor in a carrier only to be stumbled over by passengers (including myself), grabbed my then six year old grandchild and slammed her head against the steel upright handrail and ran off. I had noted at the subway platform where we first waited for the train that there wasn't a police officer in sight and there was no police officer to be found when the child was assaulted. I swore I would never go to Atlanta again. Beverly Scott knows nothing about subway security and should be sent packing.

Barak Obama, Deval Patrick, Beverly Scott. What do all three have in common? Answer: each is a photo-op African American with no hard skills; the personification of affirmative action run amok. The chance that this woman will make the trains run on time is about the same as that Obama will tell the truth and lower the deficit, or that Patrick will cleanse Massachusetts government of its corruption.

BTW, WBZ-TV and Joe Shortsleeve first broke the story on the KPMG management review about 2 weeks ago.

Having worked briefly for Beverly Scott when she was at RIPTA, I can say that I'm looking forward positively to her arrival at the MBTA. She is a transportation professional, who has been immersed in the national transportation community as a leader and innovator for many years. She's not scared off by agencies with acronyms, but rather knows how to use them for the benefit of her agency. This is over and above her transit management responsibilities. I'd say that she knows more about federal transit funding, and policy, and has more experience in transit system management than any other MTBA General Manager ever. She understands what intermodal transportation is and can be, and will make these links better. She is a dynamo, and outspoken. Since she has nothing to lose, I would expect that she would call things as she sees them. She will pay attention to transit needs identified in the transportation planning process, and understands what that is. I think we will experience a Hurricane Beverly when she comes to town, and am certainly looking forward to fresh winds blowing through the creaky tunnels of the MBTA. Wherever it may lead.

hahaha......after a NATIONWIDE search........this is who they choose.......??