The Jamaica Plain Gazette reports an unexpected federal grant could provide enough money to start work on the $200-million rehab of the "temporary" facility - which the T recently said it couldn't do at all.
That happens, it happens to all of us in different ways. I can accept that. However, the reason an "unexpected" federal grant program was just initiated for transportation is because of the few dumbass states that rejected the DoT money for things like high-speed train lines because they wanted to make the government stop spending money (harumph!).
The stupid thing was that this was already spent money, having gone to a department's budget for granting, it just had to be appropriated out at that point...so they setup a new round of appropriation/grants (which probably ended up costing more than if they'd just taken the money because of the overhead of starting a new competitive grant process!).
Thank them for turning down a high speed rail line to nowhere because those states didn't want to be stuck with the maintenance tab for something useless. Now we as taxpayers can benefit from the money being redirected to valuable projects instead of boondoggles. Hooray!
Because other states turned down money for projects which didn't make long term financial sense for them, Massachusetts benefited by being reallocated the money for projects which make long term financial sense for us.
The projects in those states absolutely made long term sense and would have included commercial zoning for new business development along the new/replaced lines. That's the part where I claim you have no idea what you're talking about. You're just parroting what the Republican hacks in those states said to justify their moronic grandstanding.
to make a bus yard "all nice and pretty" because it's such an "unaccepable eyesore", how about allowing the T management to take that Federal money and actually do something with it that improves the service for the MBTA ridersstrong> instead. Like, say, eliminating the unreliable bus service and putting back the streetcars that worked perfectly well for decades. Or at the very least, funding an increase in staffing so they can run a few more buses and trains throughout the system
And if the community feels that providing a park and commercial development on this site is so important to them, then let the community raise the money to make the changes. But we need to stop this ineffective and completley wasteful of continually diverting money that should go to providing an improved transportation infrastructure to these locally-mandated projects that do absolutely nothing to improve the transportation service.
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Thank you, Florida, Ohio, and Wisconsin!!
See, and you people said Republicans weren't good for anything.
Thank them . . .
. . . for nothing. Mass pays more to the feds than it ever gets back.
Sure, it happens
That happens, it happens to all of us in different ways. I can accept that. However, the reason an "unexpected" federal grant program was just initiated for transportation is because of the few dumbass states that rejected the DoT money for things like high-speed train lines because they wanted to make the government stop spending money (harumph!).
The stupid thing was that this was already spent money, having gone to a department's budget for granting, it just had to be appropriated out at that point...so they setup a new round of appropriation/grants (which probably ended up costing more than if they'd just taken the money because of the overhead of starting a new competitive grant process!).
Good . . .
. . . info on that.
Thank them for turning down a
Thank them for turning down a high speed rail line to nowhere because those states didn't want to be stuck with the maintenance tab for something useless. Now we as taxpayers can benefit from the money being redirected to valuable projects instead of boondoggles. Hooray!
You have no idea what you're talking about
But I've come to accept that about you.
Because other states turned
Because other states turned down money for projects which didn't make long term financial sense for them, Massachusetts benefited by being reallocated the money for projects which make long term financial sense for us.
Clear enough?
Some of them were sensible
Some of them were sensible but were turned down for ideological reasons, nothing else.
Not that I'm complaining. Half of it is going to California, and some of the rest to us. Yay!
See you did it again
The projects in those states absolutely made long term sense and would have included commercial zoning for new business development along the new/replaced lines. That's the part where I claim you have no idea what you're talking about. You're just parroting what the Republican hacks in those states said to justify their moronic grandstanding.
Instead of giving into the community's demands
to make a bus yard "all nice and pretty" because it's such an "unaccepable eyesore", how about allowing the T management to take that Federal money and actually do something with it that improves the service for the MBTA ridersstrong> instead. Like, say, eliminating the unreliable bus service and putting back the streetcars that worked perfectly well for decades. Or at the very least, funding an increase in staffing so they can run a few more buses and trains throughout the system
And if the community feels that providing a park and commercial development on this site is so important to them, then let the community raise the money to make the changes. But we need to stop this ineffective and completley wasteful of continually diverting money that should go to providing an improved transportation infrastructure to these locally-mandated projects that do absolutely nothing to improve the transportation service.