Getting on Board for a Better MBTA: Principles to Fix Our Public Transit
The MBTA is in crisis. Decades of underinvestment and deferred maintenance have resulted in dire safety problems. These include the death of a rider, multiple runaway trains, train fires, a bus fire, an escalator malfunction, and daily risks to the workers and riders who operate, maintain, and use the system. There have been countless train accidents, and riders and workers are afraid they will be next in the news. And the MBTA has taken the extreme step of shutting down the entire Orange Line for a full month to make long-overdue repairs, while also closing off a significant portion of the Green Line.
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The MBTA is in crisis. Decades of underinvestment and deferred maintenance have resulted in dire safety problems. These include the death of a rider, multiple runaway trains, train fires, a bus fire, an escalator malfunction, and daily risks to the workers and riders who operate, maintain, and use the system. There have been countless train accidents, and riders and workers are afraid they will be next in the news. And the MBTA has taken the extreme step of shutting down the entire Orange Line for a full month to make long-overdue repairs, while also closing off a significant portion of the Green Line.
