The one thing I want to note is how much room left if failure is the outcome.

Failure back in 2015 means the MBTA has declined was no longer resilient enough to stay up after the most snowiest winter in recorded history all packed into roughly a month.

By 2022, failure means the MBTA has declined to the point they can only provide weekend level headways during rush hour at best with trains moving at half the speed on average and increasing questions of safety including a person dying.

If the new MBTA general manage fails, it means the MBTA will decline even deeper in into hole. We're already at weekend headways, slow zones everywhere, and even one person dead. So what's the next level? At some point, the only thing worse that can happen - well I'm not even gonna say it out loud. But if things does get worse, there is a bottom that we can hit.

I hope this new GM succeed. Hope does not mean I expect he will. But we're approaching the point imagining what state the MBTA would be if he fails is not something we like to imagine.