MBTA GM Grabauskas Jets Away

Setting: Your the head of a large transit authority. One key component of your transit authority may be interrupted due to another entity's strike. What do you do?

Well, if your the MBTA's GM Daniel Grabauskas, you decided to NOT cancel your vacation plans, even when your boss (Governor Deval Patrick and the MBTA's Advisory Board) ask you to cancel your plans.

The Boston Herald is always good for exposing outrageous behavior made by public officials. Today's edition features an article about Grabauskas and his decision to go on vacation. "MBTA boss takes off on Boston" is pretty outrageous. As a commuter and a Massachusetts taxpayer, I can't believe that Grabauskas did not cancel his plans.

The MBTA, living in their la la land, had a spokesperson quoted as saying that "the strike appears 'very unlikely'," and that Grabauskas left "detailed contingency plans, including travel instructions for passengers on each rail line that could be impacted."

Grabauskas is vacationing in Thailand and he is supposedly coming back to Massachusetts before the targeted January 30th strike date.

I'm not sure if Grabauskas made the most professional move by going on vacation before the strike. He should have seen if he could have postponed his plans by a few weeks to make sure the strike isn't going to happen.

OR, perhaps, Grabauskas isn't really needed at the helm of the agency. If that is the case, maybe he should be cut free and his hefty salary should be used to fund other transportation entities.

Unreal!!