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Public or private, there are a lot of ways to waste money

October 6, 2017 By Charley on the MTA 14 Comments

You can waste money in the public sector. You can waste money via privatization. As I mentioned a couple of days ago, putting public projects out to bid for private contractors is not a cure-all, nor a guaranteed money-saver, nor a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor Tagged With: contracting, mbta

Baker lays up treasures

October 4, 2017 By Charley on the MTA 7 Comments

Stonehill Professor Peter Ubertaccio has a new post decrying the tactics of Setti Warren's campaign, trying to strip the bark off of Charlie Baker's popularity. Setti Warren's campaign is alleging that the governor is dallying on Puerto … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor Tagged With: #magov, charlie-baker, mbta, setti-warren

State auditor has proposed regs that could weaken the Pacheco Law

October 3, 2017 By dave-from-hvad Leave a Comment

(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blogsite) The Pacheco Law has over the years been one of the more effective available checks on the runaway privatization of state services. But the law, which has been the target of continual attacks from … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: developmental-disabilities, mbta, pacheco-law, privatization, seiu, suzanne-bump

#CrumblingT: A video for a “car guy” mayor

September 25, 2017 By Charley on the MTA 7 Comments

First, to acknowledge Doug Rubin's objection to my use of "Coakley moment" to describe Marty Walsh's out-of-touch statement on the T. Martha's obviously paid a high price for the last few years, and I don't do this website to be cruel to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor Tagged With: marty-walsh, mbta, transportation

Marty Walsh’s Coakley moment

September 22, 2017 By Charley on the MTA 18 Comments

And on such a day ...   #MBTA #RedLine: Shuttle buses btwn Park St & Ashmont. Braintree branch service is running btwn Braintree & JFK/UMass https://t.co/LlyGZqgQLZ pic.twitter.com/zqMY0w8BZb — MBTA (@MBTA) September 22, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor Tagged With: #bosmayor, amazon, bospoli, marty-walsh, mbta

The Northeast Should Limit Pollution from Transportation

September 12, 2017 By DanielGatti Leave a Comment

Cross-posted from UCS blog The Equation. Over the past decade, the Northeast region of the United States has helped lead the country—and the world—in supporting and developing clean, renewable sources of electricity. Taken together, the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: climate, environment, mapoli, mbta, transportation

MBTA GM: Hear no lawsuit, see no lawsuit

August 31, 2017 By Charley on the MTA 1 Comment

WBUR is still owning the Ramirez/MBTA story: Turns out that the T's Fiscal Management and Control Board seems not to have been informed about Ramirez's shall-we-say dicey history at Global Power Equipment Group. Nor did they seem to have a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor Tagged With: charlie-baker, Luis Ramirez, mbta, Stephanie Pollack, transit

MBTA GM: “a little fire on the tracks”

August 28, 2017 By Charley on the MTA 5 Comments

In case you missed it, WBUR's team of Chakrabarti and McNerney have even yet still another chapter in the fascinating story  of Luis Ramirez -- or more properly, of the people who hired him for the MBTA. The head-hunting firm that found … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor Tagged With: charlie-baker, Luis Ramirez, mbta, red-line, Stephanie Pollack, transportation

MBTA GM: It gets worse

August 23, 2017 By Charley on the MTA 33 Comments

Meghna Chakrabarti and Kathleen McNerney reported last week about the rather sketchy "turnaround" record of Luis Ramirez, Charlie Baker's and Stephanie Pollack's choice for T chief. It gets worse, a lot worse: His former company, Global … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor Tagged With: charlie-baker, mbta, Ramirez

It’s time to make Keolis pay

October 24, 2016 By Jamie Eldridge 46 Comments

I was outraged to hear that the Baker administration decided to forgive $839,000 in fines leveled against Keolis, the outsourced operator of the commuter rail system, behind closed doors and without any notice to the public. As co-chairs of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: Carmen's Union, charlie-baker, jamie-eldridge, Linda Dorcena Forry, marty-walsh, mbta, outsourcing, public-transit, sean-garballey

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This old quote from Hank Aaron in The NY Times obituary just left me speechless. I had not seen this before.

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1/3 NY awarded contracts for 2.5 GW of OSW the day before @MassGovernor vetoed the #NextGenClimate bill, which included 2.4 GW of OSW for MA. The result? NY is now positioned as the “undeniable center of gravity” for the E. Coast OSW industry.

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