MBTA Blue, Orange and Red service hit with services cut given a still-ongoing federal investigation into obvious safety concerns

– News from elsewhere covered by Quincy Quarry News with commentary added

Service delay given a fatal bus accident at the Quincy Center station
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The service cuts imposed effective today were to reduce weekday Blue, Orange, and Red Lines subway service to Saturday service levels so as to endeavor to see if the MBTA can perhaps be able to strive to operate at acceptable performance levels of reliability and safety at some point down the tracks.

The only subway rail lines not facing services cuts are the Green Lines.

Then again, with the B Line facing a temporary shift to bus shuttles service given a track replacement project, the Green Line system is also facing significant cuts to its regular rail-based service levels.

On bright side, at least there is no snow
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The only arguable good news about this problematic news follows.

All regional media scored a major story to feature today, the first Juneteenth federal, local, and state long holiday weekend Monday that would have otherwise been a quiet day for feature story grade news.

At the same time, the quietude of today conversely as well as oh so ironically made for a good day for the MBTA to roll out this breaking badly bad news©.

We’re the T, so swive you!
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The MBTA is also likely to be fine with cutting service as subway ridership is still down to roughly half of pre-COVID levels even if those still riding the rails are surely not pleased over increased waiting times for a train.

Also likely pleased is surely thinking he dodged a bullet is MBTA Board of Directors member and City of Quincy Thomas P. Koch – what with today a holiday, he so had a perfect excuse to duck media inquiries for comment.

Even so, at least WBZ Channel 4 and Boston 25 staged their field coverage of the MBTA’s rail services cuts at Quincy Red Lines stations.

Is the WCVB 5 Newscopter swooping in soon?
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In turn, given that WCVB Channel 5 has also been on the Koch Administration’s case on other matters recently, one can only assume that at least some of the regional broadcast and other news media outlets are surely circling around the middling-sized chubby fish in a modest pond that is Mayor Koch so as to score some easy bites of ambush interview blubber.

After all, it is summer time and fishing for grifting is thus easy.

Wicked easy as a matter of fact.

Follow the money. ALwAYS follow the money
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For example, both Quincy Quarry News and a well-enough known local gadfly are variously already calling Mayor Koch’s obsession with overwhelming various Quincy neighborhoods with outsized and mostly high-end rent for Quincy apartment building projects given his monomaniacal obsession with facilitating so-called transit-oriented developments which abutters mostly do not favor.

At the same time, however, it is surely but a long string of coincidences that over the years Mayor Koch has scored hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign donations from grateful real estate developers whose interests were so greased as well as in various cases provided with all sorts of incentives.

In other words, The Quincy Circle of Life.

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