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[deleted] t1_j2sjydy wrote

Meanwhile the T is crumbling because Boston clearly doesn’t have enough political gravity to get the state to care. Are you fucking kidding?

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wgc123 t1_j2tnff0 wrote

There was that thread about Boston workdays only having 52% of pre-pandemic activity. Although I don’t know how that would explain decades of deferred maintenance

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[deleted] t1_j2u0cjw wrote

The issue is that Boston will continue to need the T even if no suburban commuters ever return to the city. It serves a crucial function to the urban core.

Plain as day there something will need to change

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hotaspee t1_j2u0fgc wrote

right, we had to wait like six extra years for new red line and orange line cars because we had to build a factory in western MA to build them in order to get support from the rural electeds. and Baker vetoed indexing the gas tax because it wasn’t popular amongst rural voters

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