I have decided that every time I have to take a taxi because the MBTA fails to get me to an important appointment on time, such as occurred this morning when not only the bus that I got up at shaking sick sleepless o'clock to catch but its successor according to the live online schedule totally failed to show, I am going to send a letter with the amount to Charlie Baker. Because he may have infinite cash to burn on private transportation, but I don't. That's why I buy a monthly T pass. Which this month cost a hell of a lot more than last month. And so far has seen a hell of a lot less use.
Is there already a website for this purpose? To submit to our governor the costs of having to use the public transit which he has so conspicuously and catastrophically neglected? Taxi fares. Uber fares. Lyft fares. Gas money. Parking. Missed appointment fees. Lost wages. Extra childcare. It costs when the T doesn't work. It costs me more than I can afford. Today it was $20 for a taxi and I still made only the last fifteen minutes of my therapist's apppointment, so much for self-care.![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
spatch regularly has to catch equally out-of-our-budget taxis in order to get to work on time, rather obviating the point of his paychecks. I wind up walking into Davis half the time. There was a 72 bus on fire in Cambridge this afternoon. And I should like to make Charlie Baker feel it. I'd get arrested if I grabbed him by the scruff of his neck and stuffed him on the Red Line at Braintree at rush hour and stuck a mike in his face for comments when he stumbled off at Alewife, so what are my options for legal obnoxiousness? A hashtag only works if he checks his own Twitter account. Postcards to pile up in his snail mail? Formal invoices billing him for costs incurred? I don't have the energy to create or maintain any kind of infrastructure or even nudge an idea toward virality, but I am sick unto revolution of buses and trains that arrive late or never and meanwhile keep grinding insufficient yet insupportable operating costs out of the commuters who can spare it least. World-class city, my cat's hind foot.
Is there already a website for this purpose? To submit to our governor the costs of having to use the public transit which he has so conspicuously and catastrophically neglected? Taxi fares. Uber fares. Lyft fares. Gas money. Parking. Missed appointment fees. Lost wages. Extra childcare. It costs when the T doesn't work. It costs me more than I can afford. Today it was $20 for a taxi and I still made only the last fifteen minutes of my therapist's apppointment, so much for self-care.
spatch regularly has to catch equally out-of-our-budget taxis in order to get to work on time, rather obviating the point of his paychecks. I wind up walking into Davis half the time. There was a 72 bus on fire in Cambridge this afternoon. And I should like to make Charlie Baker feel it. I'd get arrested if I grabbed him by the scruff of his neck and stuffed him on the Red Line at Braintree at rush hour and stuck a mike in his face for comments when he stumbled off at Alewife, so what are my options for legal obnoxiousness? A hashtag only works if he checks his own Twitter account. Postcards to pile up in his snail mail? Formal invoices billing him for costs incurred? I don't have the energy to create or maintain any kind of infrastructure or even nudge an idea toward virality, but I am sick unto revolution of buses and trains that arrive late or never and meanwhile keep grinding insufficient yet insupportable operating costs out of the commuters who can spare it least. World-class city, my cat's hind foot.
