A Bunch of Wealthy White Guys have a BRAIN FART that Boston could host the OLYMPICS.....
Clearly, they've never indulged in PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION.....and this was the best they could do?
The FREE SILVER LINE is maintained at what cost?
How pathetic is this after Gazillions spent on the Big Dig?
This has to be the greatest Political-Hack-O-Rama there is:
THE SOLUTION?
Quite simple!
Make it mandatory that:
1.every single elected official COMMUTE ON PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION!
2, ELIMINATE ALL FREE PARKING SPACES!
3. ELIMINATE ANY CHAUFFEURS and ALLOW GOV. BAKER to get a real sense of what's needed by navigating this disaster
4. ELIMINATE THE TRAVEL ALLOWANCE
5. It should be mandatory that every elected official travel to a European City and only take public transportation. London would be a good start, yet there are many others.
There are other solutions....until elected officials get out of their cars.....this is an issue of INEQUALITY perpetuated by Wealthy White Guys.
Stranded: How America's Failing Public Transportation Increases Inequality
16 May 15
Commuters board the bus at the Rosa Parks Transit Center in Detroit. (photo: Joshua Lott/AFP/Getty Images)
Quibbling about EXPANDING THE GREEN LINE?
Whatcha gonna do?
Wednesday, August 26, 2015 ?????????
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By George Donnelly (@geodonnelly) with Sara Brown
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Today: Baker abroad -- sort of; T's state of not-so-good repair
Gov. Baker has dared to leave these United States for the hinterland of Newfoundland, where is he convening with New England governors and Canadian officials about energy issues. There will be a press conference at 2:30pm East Coast time with the governors and Canadian premiers. The MBTA Fiscal and Management Control Board will hear an update on the state of good repair backlog, a financial report, an accessibility overview and the board will be presented with an action item on diesel fuel procurement, 1pm, MassDOT Board Room, 10 Park Plaza, Suite 3830, Boston. Look for more Deflategate drama as US District Court Judge Richard Berman has required both Tom Brady and Roger Goodell to be in court today as lawyers continue to hash out the case. The Globe's Ben Volin says Berman could rule as soon as today if he feels he's heard enough and a settlement seems out of reach. http://bit.ly/1N3X9QY
The action this week: Ballot rulings, Warren in Brockton
On Wednesday, Attorney General will rule on the constitutionality of 32 ballot petition efforts. If the measures get the green light, then backers must then gather the necessary signatures -- 64,750. Here are the ballot initiatives: http://1.usa.gov/18wVcto. Sen. Elizabeth Warren will be in Brockton Thursday for theopening of the new Brockton Neighborhood Health Center. The facility was part of a $22 million investment project to bring the health center and the adjacent Vicente's Tropical Supermarket to Brockton to help low-income residents improve their health, according to a release. Brockton Mayor Bill Carpenter is among a group of guests who also plan to attend.
Do we really, really need the Green Line Extension?
The Green Line Extension has quickly evolved into a symbol of runaway government costs. At the same time, in this new and welcome era of heightened sensitivity about transportation needs, it also has become a catch-all for the necessity to invest in public transportation infrastructure, no matter the merits of the specific project. We just gotta do it, they say, because failure to do it would mean we're not moving forward as a public-transportation sensitive metropolis. But let's face it, $3 billion is a lot for a slow train to West Medford. One of the most pointed and sensible commentaries about GLX I've seen was written by the MetroWest Daily News' Rick Holmes, whose editorial yesterday had the temerity to raise some basic issues of transportation fairness and effectiveness. Here are two of the many questions he raises about GLX: "Will this project significantly reduce traffic congestion and the air pollution it produces which was, after all, the reason it was included in the Big Dig mitigation? How much, and would the same money buy more progress if it was spent differently?" He adds that Somerville is already well served by public transportation, and so too is Tufts University. There was time in the distant past when Tufts made a bid to have its name added to the Davis Square T station. And the university didn't do that because it felt it wasn't being served by the T. Town-gown tension already was high enough back then, and the idea was quickly shot down. See Holmes' MetroWest Daily News editorial here: http://bit.ly/1N3x1px
Pollack's quandary
Speaking of the GLX, there's more on our fascinating transportation chief, Stephanie Pollack, in a profile in today's Globe. One only has to listen to Pollack to realize she's brilliant and opinionated, as well as in a box when it comes to figuring what to do about the GLX. When she was with the Conservation Law Foundation and threatening to sue the state over the GLX, she said, "They can't just say, 'We're broke.'" Now, she tells the Globe's Stephanie Ebbert, cancellation of the project "has to be on the table until we have a solution." http://bit.ly/1LNodn9
Warren -- too big for Massachusetts?
Might we have a Democratic primary of Kennedy, Moulton, Healey, and Walsh? Sen. Elizabeth Warren declined to say whether she'd seek re-election in 2018 during an interview that aired Sunday morning on WCVB's "On the Record" with Jon Keller. "I haven't even hit the half-way mark," she said. On the same program, Democratic political consultant Mary Ann Marsh said there are "a lot of people who seem to think" Warren won't run for Senate again and suggested Warren's level of power may convince her she can "get more done outside the United States Senate." Said Republican political consultant Patrick Griffin, "I think Elizabeth Warren's grown too big for the job. The brand has become bigger than Massachusetts. I think Bernie Sanders' success still shows that a lot of people are pining for her on the progressive left of the Democratic Party." Marsh hypothesized about a Warren-less Democratic primary for US Senate in 2018 featuring Congressmen Joe Kennedy and Seth Moulton, Attorney General Maura Healey, and Boston Mayor Martin Walsh. "It would be the number one Senate race in the country if it happened." -Michael Norton, SHNS
Also from Warren: 'I want to hear from the Pope'
Pope Francis will make an unprecedented address to a joint session of Congress next month and you can count Sen. Elizabeth Warren among those eager to hear from the head of the Catholic Church. "I'm delighted. I want to hear from the pope," Warren told WCVB's "On the Record." "The pope has made clear that the kinds of issues that we talk about and we think of as political issues -- the environment, what we do for the poor, what our obligations are to help all of us build a future -- the pope makes it clear that those are issues not just issues of economics they are issues of values and I want to hear from the pope." In the interview recorded more than a week ago, Warren said she had not decided who to invite to the pope's address, but said her first invitee turned her down. "I asked my oldest grandchild but she can't miss school." -Michael Norton, SHNS
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