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Quincy Quarry News Weekly Fish Wrap: The MBTA happens …
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2019 JFK Red Line Station derailment
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Even by the lowly standards of the MBTA, this week it set new lows.
Heretofore unimaginable new lows,
Heading towards absolute zero grade lows.
First up, the MBTA cut Blue, Orange, and Red Line weekday service to their respective reduced weekend schedules so as to endeavor to provide safer service.
Fortunately, this played out to the MBTA’s benefit, albeit not as anyone might have expected as shortly thereafter the T had to yet again pull out of service all of its new Orange and Red Line trains given a new problem with them.
Are heads on pikes next?
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Even so, such dumb luck did not stop the Boston tabloid’s call for firing both the MBTA’s General Manager as well as the heads of the MBTA Board of Directors.
If not especially the heads of its board of directors members.
In turn, Quincy Quarry fully endorses doing so if for no other reason than to exorcise the Medusa Touch of Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch, someone who has been the Chair of MTBA Advisory Board for a decade as well as is the most senior member of the MBTA’s Board of Directors.
Trust me Skipper, it’s gonna work out just fine …
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Reasons include that all of Quincy’s four Red Line stations are fraught with problems, not to mention that his championing of building a new MBTA bus yard in South Quincy hit the fan shortly after its most unusual indoor groundbreaking.
Then again, none of these shortcomings are Quincy’s vertically-challenged mayor’s fault.
Just ask him and so then hear his usual response whenever things blow up in his pudgy face.
And yet some Kochsters accuse Quincy Quarry News of making up stuff …
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Well, I for one, am happy to see that the MBTA Advisory Board (with Lord Mayor Koch at the helm for 10 years) and the MBTA Board of Directors have been doing such a fine job providing strong and effective oversight for the operations of the T . . . NOT!
Kind of the same way he’s running Quincy into the ground.
It amazes me that the MBTA screens, background checks, and drug tests its blue-collar employees but not its board members.