Perhaps incentives from the MBTA for multiple day CharlieCards such as an added 2-3 days free like the Baker's Dozen. Or a lottery drawing from monthly CharlieCard buyers in which a number of free monthly CharlieCards are awarded. It has to be scrupulously clean, of course. Not that many have to be given as it's the marketing publicity that you want. People like to be rewarded. Just a thought.

Build large parking garages in the suburbs and provide straight-shot electric bus service with dedicated lanes during rush-hour. Works like crazy in Montreal. Some cities are now playing with the idea of simply banning internal combustion engines. If all the transport is electric, the city would be much more livable. Right now, you can be walking down the street with young children and have a blast of blue-black smoke shot right into your face from a belching vehicle and this is normal. In all other contexts, such an affront would be considered a battery.

"parking structures that only exist because they're too valuable to tear down..." Only a liberal moonbat would be upset by such a condition. Mr Marrow - you seem to be of the impression that if you make it hard to get into the City....those horrible 1%er's (who provide those dreaded private sector jobs) would move into the city, or start riding the bus... I think what you'll find if your addled dreams come true....is that the good companies and good jobs go elsewhere - out of the city or out of the state....and then you *will* have reduced traffic, and the only folks left in town will be those on the dole in public housing.... Is that the hope and change you want?

Ever ride the T during a heat wave? The cars themselves aren't too bad except during rush hour when all the hot, sweaty bodies overwhelm the wheezing air conditioner. The underground platforms, on the other hand, make you feel like you're in a sauna, only with clothes on. The mass transit that Mr. Morrow wants us all to utilize is an inferior service. Anybody who has spent time in New York, Chicago or San Francisco, to say nothing of Paris or London, knows just how badly the T compares to real mass transit systems in world class cities. The T stinks, this time of year literally, the rest of the year metaphorically.

Consider this excerpt from the article: "They should start with a stiff surcharge on downtown garage parking. The new fee wouldn't drastically raise overall parking rates, since the garages are now immensely profitable, and owners could easily allow their own revenues to float downward." Oh sure. This may not be the dumbest article I've read in the Globe, but it would certainly be in the top threee or four.

Hey spencer, you're sitting on what you know about foreign transportation systems. In Paris, only one line has air conditioning. The other nine or ten don't. You have to open the train doors yourself. When in the car, you're rubbing knees with someone directly facing you. For air conditioning, they leave the windows open in the tunnels. The stair climbs resemble those of a lighthouse.

Paul, do you actually ride public transit? Based on your editorial I would have to guess that you don't. I do every day and it is a pretty miserable experience. The big dig mass transit commitments you mention were not funded. The ones that have been built (commuter rail expansion, Sliver Line) and one being built (Green Line Extension) have been funded by cannibalizing maintenance on the current system. The effect of these projects had made public transit a nightmare for current riders. As an example a South Shore Red Line commuter this AM would have had a hard time trying to find a place to park after the closure of the 872 parking space Quincy Center Garage because the T failed to maintain it. If they found a space they were most likely late for work when one of the Red Lines 43 year old trains failed shutting everything down. Once the T got that out of the way commuters enjoyed the at least weekly failure of the signal system. Yes getting cars out of the city is a wonderful idea but the expansion projects need to stop until the T can guarantee safe dependable transportation to its current riders.

The T is congested and subpar because of insufficient funding compared to funding for roads. This situation benefits garages.This is,as is often the case,public support for private enterprise. It is also a case of public loss and private gain,as was the Big Dig(the T is carrying transferred debt fron the Big Dig.)

It takes an hour and a half on the Worcester-Framingham line to get from Grafton to Back Bay Station. Costs, $10 per person each way. That is $40 round trip for my wife and I. I can drive into the city in 45 minutes (4 gallons round trip) and park for $9 on the weekend. Why would I want to take the T? Oh, that's right. Mr. McMorrow, in all his high-mindedness wants me to take the T. And he thinks by making it prohibitively expensive I will. Because, afterall, he knows what is best for all of us. The liberal, nanny-ism of the Commonwealth knows no bounds.

A family of four trying to go to the Children's Museum from Medford...we have to pay $5-7 to park in Wellington, go Orange to Red, get off at South Station and then walk to the Museum. So we are over $20 in transportation and either have to carry the children most of the way or get dirty looks from riders with our strollers. After all this time we are exhausted and it has been well over an hour. Or we can drive for 10 minutes and pay $9 to park. Get rid of the garages and families will stop coming and then so will the parents even when alone. We can't all ride the T or bikes. Ignorant, uninformed article...research should have been part of forming his opinion.

This column is as brilliant as yesterday's opinion article on auto inspections. I love the city but the cost to park and the uncomfortable public transportation is getting me to do more in the suburbs. The powers at the top of the Boston business community need to realistically strategize how people get into the city. It's more likely we'll get brilliant suggestions like the one above than we'll get solutions.

The sooner we rid ourselves of the auto/oil addiction, which directly or indirectly subsidizes many countries and groups that are dedicated to the destruction of the U.S.A., the better we'll all be.

I believe the technical term in management speak for the current situation is a lose-lose situation. Not only do we have less parking options for driving in to the city but for those of us tax paying residents in some neighborhoods (West Roxbury, Rosi) we now have a fully crippled MBTA service. We now have the pleasure of paying more for a commuter rail service and no easy way of getting downtown on weekends. Great way to take care of your residents and foster economic growth Boston!

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