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Former MBTA Board of Directors Chair Betsy Taylor hits the rails
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Governor Maura Healey has jettisoned three members of the MBTA’s arguably ineffectual and definitely long as well as duly criticized board of directors.
No word, however, if any deck chairs were rearranged.
Unfortunately for understandably vengeance-seeking Quincy straphangers, Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch will continue to be the MBTA Board of Directors most senior member by dint of his over decade-long stint as the Chair of the also ineffectual MBTA Advisory Board.
Instead, those kicked off of the train are now-former MBTA Board of Directors Chair Betsy Taylor, as well as board members Scott Darling and Mary Beth Mello.
(“Phew – ducked under those bullets”)
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The new board members: Tom Glynn, who served as the MBTA’s general manager under former Massachusetts. Michael Dukakis and later headed Massport, will be the board’s new chair with Lynn Mayor Tom McGee and Worcester banker Eric Goodwine replacing the other departed board members.
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Source: Healey replaces 3 MBTA board members — including chair
Looks like the Lynn mafia is taking over the T. All connected, none qualified. Bet that mayor of Salem is involved.
Johnson, you are on to something, however, methinks more like Lieutenant Governor Driscoll and who WAS mayor of Salem for even longer than Chumpy has been the Mayor of Quincy before her current gig. Plus, all but no way does the new mayor of Salem have that kinda juice. Not yet anyway,
Governor Healey is sharp and recognizes Tom Koch as a veteran all-star and valuable MBTA board member.
Meanwhile, Quincy voters overwhelmingly reelected Mayor Koch (multiple times) for the same reasons.
#StrongLeadership #QuincyFirst #Koch2024
^ #KochsuckerExtrordinaire ^ ^ #NeedsToComeUpForAir ^
Piggy says” “Tom Koch as a veteran all-star and valuable MBTA board member.”
OK Einswine, tell us just what he does. Not just a series of your inane and repetitive platitudes or outright Kochsucking — provide some actual real world accomplishments for a change.
Louie, you need to put on your diaper and dress and step out for some fresh air. I know you must keep 1000 yards away from schools; however, there is still lots to see and experience in the real world.
The T board was responsible for awarding contracts to upgrade; tracks, switches, signals, installation of a new master signal house, a new backup generator, inverter, transformer system, and switch heaters, as well as electrical and signal cable trough systems, new LED lighting of the track and overhead wire areas, and provide new security systems, including cameras and fencing. Let’s now forget the new train cars.
I would be here all day if I were to point out all of the glorious accomplishments, upgrades, and improvements that Mayor Koch has implemented in Quincy.
Your mom says you spend too much time fishing for real men on Chickatawbut Road. Why don’t you get out and ride the T or take a trip up to Pageant Field, or is Pageant too close to a school?
#StrongLeadership #QuincyFirst #Koch2024
Sus domesticus says: “The T board was responsible for awarding contracts . . . ”
So that’s why the T is continues to be such a mess. Got it.
And I still can’t figure out your fixation and fantasies about my orientation to the world. One might even suspect you’re sitting there drooling as you type — you’re clearly trying to project your preferred behavior onto me. Better go have another drink . . . Piggy.
Chop,
So much for all the so-called work by your amore.
Yesterday afternoon just as the evening commute was starting up trains on the Red Line were taken out of service and replaced with bus bridge service.
Total Charlie Foxtrot.
Even worse, word of this was NOT posted on the T’s service alert webpage.
Any idea if your amore has loaned out his Secretary of Disinformation Pinocchio Walkbacker so as to squelch bad news from being reported by the T?
Porky,
FYI: Healey did NOT name Koch to the MBTA Board of Directors. The never known to be a user of public transit was added to the board during the Baker Administration as the unilateral appointment by the MBTA Advisory Board, and which Koch has been the Chair for over a dozen years, to a seat on the MBTA Board of Directors.
In other words, not only was the fix in, he is also a long time part of the myriad of problems at the T as opposed to a part of their solutions.
FYI #2: Every time Koch has run for reelection he has averaged a handful of hundreds or thereabouts FEWER votes than he received in the previous election. Needless to say, not a positive trendline.
Further note that he only scored a modestly larger that a mere 50% plus one majority of votes on the whole of the ballots submitted in the last election running against a nobody protest candidate who did not campaign.
This is worse than rearranging the deck chairs. The first two appointments are from what should be the bygone days of Massachusetts good ole boy favors club. The last appointment is a DEI hire from Worcester. Must be all those derailments at Oak Hill or missed stops at Webster Sq that made her pick a Worcester guy.
Things will get worse. McGee and Goodwine have nothing to bring to the board. Glynn already headed the T and blew his chance to make improvements. Odd pick for Healey who claims to want to make drastic changes.