(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blogsite) Although we are an advocacy organization that focuses on human services, we have at times waded into the ongoing controversy over the operation of the MBTA in Boston. The reason for that has to … [Read more...]
RBIs should win in a walk
While we lament that Bob DeLeo's is the House Where Hope Goes To Die/Why We Can't Have Nice Things, the Senate continues to do good and creative work -- even in spite of, uh, recent distractions. Sen. Eric Lesser has a Budget Amendment … [Read more...]
Baker’s MBTA derailed, battered by on-the-nose metaphors
[with apologies to the Onion] As we round into the election season, we get to appraise the success of Governor Baker's reforms at the MBTA. Are things better, three years after inheriting a weather-exacerbated crisis in early 2015? We … [Read more...]
Oh, That’s What He Meant
Arising this morning to find half the commuter rail stuck in its tracks again and the GM's thoughts off in Siberia, we are reminded that our Governor promised us "a state government that gets out of the way." … [Read more...]
The T: Three years later, still broken
The Baker administration inherited a mess of an MBTA when it took office in 2015, which quickly bloomed into an actual crisis. The weather that January and February was record-breaking, which exposed every last flaw in the system from … [Read more...]
In transit, the future of “never”
Jim Aloisi's column in Commonwealth mag is really a must-read -- and gets right to the dreary lack of vision and egalitarian spirit that plagues our transportation authorities and political culture, from the Governor and MassDOT on … [Read more...]
New Leadership For Boston: Tito Jackson For Mayor
(While I’m promoting this post as being of general interest, this shouldn’t be seen as a BMG endorsement in this race - Charley) Boston is at a crossroads. Tuesday's election is fundamentally about what kind of city we want this to … [Read more...]
Why Cap and Invest Is the Right Solution for Massachusetts Transportation
With the Baker administration announcing new listening sessions to reduce pollution from transportation I wanted to cross-post this blog post from UCS' The Equation on the need for a cap and invest program covering transportation in … [Read more...]
#DearJeff indicates civic despair
Like many, I'm very cool to the idea of bringing Amazon to Boston. It solves none of the problems and needs we have, and indeed would exacerbate many of them. We don't need 50,000 new high tech jobs with six-figure salaries. We don't have … [Read more...]
A slow-moving train crash: 20 years+ of disinvestment in the T
Michael Widmer, formerly of Mass. Taxpayers Association, gives a recap of the last twenty years (plus) -- twenty years -- of dawdling and avoidance on actually funding our transportation needs. It's a sad tale of short-sightedness and … [Read more...]
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