The Washington Post, posted 4/26:
Operational apples and oranges: Comparing Boston, D.C. rail systems
After record-setting winter storms this year crippled the Boston area’s aged public transit system, Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker ® wasted no time in trying to reform an agency that operates one of the nation’s busiest rail and bus networks.
The region was buried under 70-plus inches of snow (eventually the total would exceed 108 inches) when the new governor, on Feb. 20, appointed a panel of experts to study the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, known as the “T.”
. . . By last week, six members of the board that oversees the T had heeded the governor’s call for their resignations. And on Wednesday, Baker proposed legislation to create a temporary “fiscal management and control board” to help guide the system back to health.
The pace of change at the T was blindingly quick by Metro standards.
Read more here.
