And now it seems the T has just had its fourth derailment of the year. ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
spatch said in awe, surveying the alerts on the MBTA website, "Everything below Broadway is kaput."
Governor Charlie Baker declined to address the cause of the derailment and instead deferred to an ongoing T investigation of the cause. But the Republican, who's long pushed back against calls to infuse the system with more cash, argued the agency is still doing the "overdue" work to update its aging equipment and infrastructure, some of which is decades old.
"We want to make sure we get it right," Baker said after an unrelated event in Springfield. "I wish we could install it all tomorrow. We can't. But I believe we're heading in the right direction on that stuff."
Somehow I don't think fast/cheap/good/pick two is the problem we are actually having here. In the Helleresque meantime, a reporter was almost late to the press conference about the derailment because of the derailment.
Train derailments are not supposed to be common. We shouldn't have even two within four days of each other. There have already been injuries. I don't want to have wait for a repeat of the Summer Street Bridge disaster before our governor actually takes this collapsing system seriously (and doesn't privatize it, for God's sake, puts money into it like a state is supposed to do with its public works). "There was nothing with the system, there was nothing wrong with the train, there was nothing wrong with the signals or the switches." Oh, not my dude, that is literally how you get Chernobyl. I so wanted an ethical artichoke.
spatch said in awe, surveying the alerts on the MBTA website, "Everything below Broadway is kaput." Governor Charlie Baker declined to address the cause of the derailment and instead deferred to an ongoing T investigation of the cause. But the Republican, who's long pushed back against calls to infuse the system with more cash, argued the agency is still doing the "overdue" work to update its aging equipment and infrastructure, some of which is decades old.
"We want to make sure we get it right," Baker said after an unrelated event in Springfield. "I wish we could install it all tomorrow. We can't. But I believe we're heading in the right direction on that stuff."
Somehow I don't think fast/cheap/good/pick two is the problem we are actually having here. In the Helleresque meantime, a reporter was almost late to the press conference about the derailment because of the derailment.
Train derailments are not supposed to be common. We shouldn't have even two within four days of each other. There have already been injuries. I don't want to have wait for a repeat of the Summer Street Bridge disaster before our governor actually takes this collapsing system seriously (and doesn't privatize it, for God's sake, puts money into it like a state is supposed to do with its public works). "There was nothing with the system, there was nothing wrong with the train, there was nothing wrong with the signals or the switches." Oh, not my dude, that is literally how you get Chernobyl. I so wanted an ethical artichoke.
