"The days of highway expansion in Massachusetts are over," declared Aliosi. Now is the time to act and particularly to level the playing field by developing passenger rail and public transit. He ticked off such benefits as sparking … [Read more...]
Could someone explain why Jim Aloisi shouldn’t resign?
Maybe the latest insanity coming out of the Transportation Building isn't as awful as it appears. But if it's not, someone needs to explain why, and fast. Otherwise, Jim Aloisi's credibility is shot to hell, and he cannot any … [Read more...]
Things I do not understand: T – Grabauskas edition
Anyone else finding the whole brouhaha over Dan Grabauskas a little bit bewildering? Three T board members express ... well, outrage is not too strong a term ... over Grabauskas' handling, or lack thereof, of the two crash incidents … [Read more...]
Transport: Nope, still don’t get it
Things must be pretty tense on Beacon Hill these days. Mary Connaughton's aggravated. Aloisi's irritated. Therese Murray is dissed.Again ... the frustrating thing about the Transport Reform Rodeo down at the State House is the … [Read more...]
2 Hearings in Westerm Mass on Transportation Reform
On Tuesday (March 3), Secretary Aloisi will be conducting an informational hearing and answering questions about the Governor's new transportation reform proposals. So far, it seems to me that most of the heated debate has been around the … [Read more...]
Things I do not understand about transport reform
It is embarassing for me to say, but I feel like I'm about the least-informed person in the Commonwealth about the gas-tax/toll-hike/transport-reform goat rodeo. I mean, I really do not know what the hell is going on, or why person X … [Read more...]
Blogging the future of transportation in MA
Part of the Gov's transportation reform plan is to make the whole process more transparent and at least somewhat interactive. The website devoted to this purpose -- You Move Massachusetts -- is up and running, and Secretary Aloisi has … [Read more...]
You heard it here first! Jim Aloisi explains transportation reform as “the necessary thing to do”
We're not anti-labor. There will be people downsized when we merge the Turnpike and the Highway Department, and we want to offer people workforce retraining and other initiatives, because we care about people. But at the same … [Read more...]
Green Line all the way, baby (to Rt. 16)
Sorry to get all parochial on everyone ... If the federal money comes through, the Green Line will go all the way out to Route 16 in Medford, i.e. by the Whole Foods/Starbucks/Sav-Mor/WOW area. Good stuff -- though obviously not as good as … [Read more...]
Jim Aloisi as exhumer-in-chief
One thing that is helpful to me is that he knows where the bodies are buried. And you know, the sad reality is that we have to dig up a lot of those bodies, and bury them properly.... there are some agencies ... where the nickname is that … [Read more...]