Thursday, January 10, 2008

BostonNow's Interview with MBTA GM Daniel A. Grabauskas

Wow! I guess it is possible to land a great paying job in which you don't have to meet certain performance requirements. Or at least, it seems that way.

Yesterday BostonNow ran an interview with the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's General Manager Daniel A. Grabauskas. The article's title "Ridership's down, it's broke, but the T needs to keep you happy," caused me to make the quip about Grabauskas. Because, since Grabauskas became the T's GM in 2005, ridership has fallen.

Grabauskas said that riders on the commuter rail will be seeing improvements this year and that fares will not increase in 2008. I'll believe it when I see it.

For the commuter rail lines, the T plans on implementing LED signs that will be used to inform riders how many minutes remain until a train arrives.

There will be equipment overhauls and replacements that will "hopefully" bring reliable on-time service. (Promise?).

75 bi-level coaches, which will be delivered by 2011, will be ordered, along with 28 locomotives (also with a 2011 delivery date). So I guess we still have three years of riding on the "old clunkers" currently in place.

Along with the article, BostonNow included a link to a podcast with Grabauskas.

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