After an MBTA shutdown that lasted nearly two days the T began limited service Sunday afternoon, with the full schedule to resume Monday morning amid questions about why the weekend snowstorm had so hobbled the system.
The return to service after the longest service interruption in recent memory was greeted with relief by local residents, who couldn’t help but wonder: What took so long?
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Richard Davey is incompetent. He's proved that over and over.
Hopefully he'll let Beverly Scott run the system and keep his interfering fingers and weak-kneed ideas out of it.
Your rotting and rancid transportation system effectively throttles any true success at business (including hospital, nightlife, finance, education, entertainment) and commercial ventures in this, ahem, city. Lack of attention to infrastrucutre effectively demonstrates what a crippled town this is under the slightest duress. It is my prediction, that desite outside investment in pharmaceutical, biotech, nanotech and robotics, as well as information science, the city of Boston and environs will never become a truly world class city by any reasonable metric or standard. Including its vaunted sports teams which have enjoyed a recent "flash in the pan".
In anticipation of staffing issues, why didn't Scott and Davies ask for travel exceptions for their employees from the governor? If media members of all types had exemptions, why not for employees of the T who determined in their own judgement that they could safely get to work? It is odd The Globe reporter didn't ask this seemingly obvious question.
Please. It was one of the worst snowstorms in history. Lets have reasonable and realistic expectations!
How short your memory. The T has been completely shut down three times in the past year. The shutdown during the blizzard of 1978 was shorter than this one, and there were no other total shutdowns until 2012.
What's different? Richard Davey, that's what.
This guy Davey has more excuses...I am never surprised by how unprepared the T is for less than ideal weather. The AG investigated and fined utility companies for their slow response in past storms. Why isn't the T held accountable? I stopped taking the T years ago and would never take it again.
I was impressed with the speed they got things back up and running. This blizzard dumped so much snow that many roads became one way. From my own experience commuting today, the subways were running fine. It was understandably the buses on such very narrow roads that were running so late.
Perhaps in the future for times like this they could temporarily increase the number of buses on the roads. I'm not sure if that's feasible, if we have enough drivers and buses to implement that, but it would go a long way to shortening bus wait times.