Posted on 02/10/2015 8:38:46 PM PST by Second Amendment First
BOSTON — Rebekah Adelstone usually drives to work, which takes 15 minutes. Since record snows have fallen, she has not wanted to risk losing her precious parking spot, so she has taken a bus to the subway. But on Tuesday, after even more snow fell, the subway system was shut down. So she ended up taking two buses to work, and her commute stretched to two hours.
Her ordeal was typical of many residents, who soldiered through the more than six feet of snow that has piled up in the last 17 days. With no chance to melt, the snows have paralyzed this city, brought commerce to a near halt and sent roofs crashing down on numerous buildings, including a music store in Rockland, 30 miles southeast. Among the damaged goods was a $500,000 rhinestone-studded piano once owned by Liberace.
Most glaringly, the storms have exposed the vulnerabilities of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, which operates the region’s decrepit, fitful subways, buses and commuter rail lines. The underfunded system, which carries 1.3 million people a day and is $5.5 billion in debt, has been plagued in the last 17 days by breakdowns, fires, power losses, delays of two and three hours, and scenes of commuters having to disembark and pick their way along snow-covered tracks.
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State environmental officials are letting cities and towns dump snow into the ocean, which is usually banned because snow has many pollutants.
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They have the transit system they voted for.
I wonder if Charlie’s wife can get down to scully square and give him his sandwich.
I’m hearing that there’s a new head of MBTA who’s both incompetent and constantly at odd with Boston’s new mayor...
I wonder how much her 6 figure buy-out payday will be?
They should have used the initial hole created by the Big Dig as a repository for extreme snowfalls - problem solved and at only a fraction of the costs it finally ran up.
Maybe this one will.
I don’t know if you’ve ever been to Boston but a lot of the back streets in this 300 year-old city are about as wide as driveways. Dump 6’ of snow in a three week period and it gets a bit difficult to navigate.
Anybody seen man named Charlie? He was last seen kissing his wife goodbye and went off to ride the MTA.
Doctors? Nurses? Firemen? Police?
That was great...thanks.
She's an idiot...an AA 'double minority'...black AND female...a chip the size of the Cape on her shoulder.
The New Englanders could have taken out the trash on Election Day like many other states, but noooooooo...they had to re-elect their ‘global warming’ acolytes; so G-d Almighty sent them a message to show them who is REALLY in charge. Of course, these elitest scum won’t get that message.
I don’t recall reading that this person complaining was a doctor, nurse, fireman or police. Those jobs you mentioned are a necessity. Hers, I doubt.
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