CAMBRIDGE — Large swaths of Cambridge were plunged into darkness and gridlock at the height of rush hour Thursday after an NStar transmission line failure flicked traffic lights off, jolted building elevators to a stop, and forced Red Line trains to a crawl.
Most of the lights were restored by 6:30 p.m., some two hours after the outage first hit, but the line failure cast vibrant parts of the city, including Harvard University, MIT, and some shops, into an eerie darkness.
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It seems like a good time to ask again: why does the CEO of a public utility make 9.2 million a year? Especially one as badly run as NSTAR.
Maybe they can get some of those administrators from Hostess Foods to run the utilities. I mean, how badly can they do, right? "Piece of cake", as it were.