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Today is the hundred and twenty-fifth birthday of subway service in Boston …
– News covered by Quincy Quarry News with commentary added.
A fire permit is needed to light this cake …
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The Tremont Street Subway, the seed for today’s larger Green Line subway network, commenced operation on September 1, 1897, exactly a hundred and twenty-five years ago.
As Boston area straphangers know all too well, local subway service is showing its age.
And then some …
That and Quincy Quarry News rather doubts that anyone will giving the T a birthday cake for reasons obvious, much less throw it a party
Source: 125 years after Boston’s subway first opened, the MBTA ordered to make major changes
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125 years and they still haven’t figured it out.
The qualifications to become an MBTA board member nowadays include; no actual public transportation operational experience, ten-plus years of verifiable incompetence, twenty years of verifiable a** kissing, tall enough to go on at least most rides at Six Flogs, and being a “switch-hitter” is a plus. I remember the days when the rattler was reliable, safe, inexpensive, and a smooth ride.