MBTA/Greenbush line falling short of expectations Options

[Sloan]

http://www.boston.com/yourtown/news/scitua...ng_short_o.html

[KevinKorell]

With the MBTA one always has to wonder how they are going about counting passengers. Of course the empty seats mentioned in the article speak for themselves, but do they count people with on board head counters, or go by ticket revenues? If it is the latter, well many of us have witnessed how lax the MBTA and its contractor MBCR are at collectiing fares on board ... so that would make the figures misleading.

[KevinKorell]

Opinion in Boston, MA Globe, 11/13/10:

Grand plans, big debts for MBTA

NEWS THAT ridership on the South Shore’s three-year-old Greenbush commuter rail line is about half of what was projected again demonstrates the folly of an expansion fever that has left the MBTA teetering financially. And as the Patrick administration considers an even bigger project — a commuter rail line to Fall River and New Bedford — local skeptics aren’t the only ones raising alarms about overextended transit systems.

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