THE NEWS THAT ONE of the MBTA’s transit ambassadors was stabbed the other day while at work in Copley Station on the Green Line is troubling but not surprising. These workers were part of a privatization effort at the T back in 2016 and currently work for a company called Block by Block. While talking to […]
Mike Vartabedian
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T budget and service cuts are unwise
FOR DECADES, the MBTA has suffered from a chronic lack of investment. The bottom fell out during the record-breaking winter storms of 2015. Since then, the MBTA has carried out layoffs, service cuts, fare hikes, and misguided privatization and “public private partnership” schemes that have not solved our region’s transit problems. We have seen train […]
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Keep your promises, MBTA
ANTIFREEZE RAINING down from broken ceilings. Sweatshop-level conditions eclipsing 110 degrees in the summer. Weeks on end without heat, including during snow and subzero temperatures. Gaping holes in the shop floor causing injury and safety hazards. Rat and mice infestations. Lifts that don’t lift, and inadequate, outdated tools. Yet a bright spot emerges each day […]