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Yesterday the MBTA rolled out an updated data dashboard offering said to be providing real time data on the slow zones that continue to plague the MBTA’s subway lines.
As is only to be expected, the new dashboard is a bit klugy.
In fact, the T’s new slow zone dashboard makes the online pages of its fellow Massachusetts Department of Transportation colleagues at the Registration of Motor Vehicles almost look pro.
Good luck figuring things out
The MBTA Slow Zone map
For example, not only is accessing the data a two-step proposition, clicking to the data can take a few tries as well as requires the very specific placing off one’s arrow on the T’s data access button.
Additionally, the way the data are provided is not exactly user-friendly and which are thus best experienced quickly by just checking out the dashboard’s simple listing of the number of slow zones on each of T’s four subway lines rather than trying to do the math.
Simply put, there are so many slow zones that they are hard to both display graphically, much less calculate.
Not that seeing a simple listing of the number of slow zones is a treat either, however.
Riding the rails …
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Regardless, what is important to straphangers is that the Red Line continues to have the most slow zones.
At the same time, still no word out of Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch and who is also the over decade-long Chair of MBTA Advisory Board, the entity that is supposed to advocate for improving service in communities served by the MBTA,, as well as that he is also the senior member of the MBTA’s Board of Directors and thus holds at least some accountability as to the Charlie Foxtrot that is the MBTA.
Where’s Tommy, Waldo, whomever …
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Then again, with this year a mayoral election year in Quincy, is anything other than being MIA whenever possible to be expected out of Quincy’s peerless mayor, especially with him continuing to step in it on all manner of local maters of interest to local voters as well as likely even more adverse for him and expense for local taxpayers court rulings are coming down the tracks.
Ever increasingly angry local voters.
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“At the same time, still no word out of Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch who is also the over decade-long Chair of MBTA Advisory Board, the entity that is supposed to advocate for improving service in communities served by the MBTA,, as well as that he is also the senior member of the MBTA’s Board of Directors”
But do we ever hear any word at all concerning issues with the T?