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He's called it unacceptable 7 or 8 times now.
That's bold leadership.
At least he got a good photo opp out of the day.
https://twitter.com/CharlieBakerMA/status/564860247517716480
Solutions?
He's already cutting $40 million from the transportation budget - what more can the man do??
Start amputating services to
Start amputating services to concentrate on a core. The red line should be the main priority. Because.
Get rid of all service!
Then service will never be cancelled because of weather or breakdowns.
Responsibility
I didn't realize that his much-touted private sector management expertise amounts to giving MBTA staff a "stern talking to."
With apologies to Truman, what happened to "the buck stops here"? How about some solutions and/or ideas, Charlie?
He's the smartest guy in the room.
Nothing is this guy's fault.
James Kerisiotes?
is due for a comeback
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I swear these people should have played SimCity 2000 and learned what happens when you cut the transportation budget: your city crumbles.
He just made it an us versus
He just made it an us versus them situation instead of we are all in it together what can I do to help. Charlie Baker was looking for some easy points by picking on the MBTA. The MBTA is having a hard time functioning, they are working very hard to keep the trains moving and it just is not working in their favor. Maybe instead of chiding them he could offer assistance, what a novel thought.
Charlie Baker=Dumbass
Like what?
Should he get out there with a shovel? He's been in office for a month. He's been busy figuring out how to get around a budget hole that approaches $1 billion - (especially after all the snow) that our dear prior leader left him.
I know the haters will want to throw the "he did it by putting all the big dig debt on them" - but Patrick was in office for 8 years and did nothing to fix it - with a Democratic legislature that really calls the shots that has never done anything about it for almost 2 decades now. For now all he can say is this is not acceptable and deal with the problems - but he may also be setting the stage to remind people come budget time in a couple months that this is truly unacceptable. Let's see if he remembers this in May.
These are his roosters! Now
These are his roosters! Now he does not want to take credit when they come home?
He ran for this office because of his private and public sector experience. On the trail he dodged his private sector experience issues and now on the job he is shocked just SHOCKED at how the MBTA is running when many of these issues were either created or ignored by his finance office. Now he wants to slash spending on top of it.
I left a job in 1997
If I went back and found that they were still doing something I had done that was no longer working it would be shame on them - not me.
Read between the lines, people. The bell tolls for the T.
The Governor just said, essentially, that either the T management lied to him or that they are too incompetent to even know whether or not they are lying. In politics, statements like that foretell a full-scale purge.
Bev. Scott will be out within the month (contract or no contract). Charlie is coming for the T's Board, too (every possible legal basis for removal will be explored).
Remember the battle royale between Romney and Amorello? This will make that look like a routine dismissal.
And then what?
Which experts at running a transportation system on rubber bands and thumbtacks does the Governor have warming up in the bullpen?
I did not read into the
I did not read into the comments as much as the other guy over there did but I would agree, he is setting the stage for a leadership move at the MBTA. Notice how he took his swing at the MBTA from inside the DCR bunker? He is trying to make the MBTA look like the only agency that is not operating at 100 percent and that is because someone is not doing their job.
Who knows who he has up his sleeve but they always have someone up their sleeve. Republicans have been out of power for 8 years after having it for so long, there are plenty of people he is friends with that he could try to force down our throats.
Then what?
I don't know, maybe hiring a competent manager!
Great idea!
I'm sure a lot of really competent people are sitting by the phone waiting for a call for a job that's high-profile, woefully underfunded, and utterly thankless as long as nobody who can help them will ever be in a position to want to.
shoveling
I was out shoveling.. I'm curious..
What did he say that makes you think that?
I'll wait for your answer before I add what I think... cuz I am real curious to know what he said
(This is a non snark question.. I'm serious..)
Did you read the article?
It is hard to miss.
I read the article.
I read it but I am asking the OP why HE thinks that and what was said that makes him think that.
The running joke...
Back in the day, when it was larded with Bulger cronies, was that MBTA stood for Mister Bulger's Transportation Authority.
I'm thinking we're gonna see that update to Ms Beverly's Time's Arrived some time very soon.
Kind of hard to propose
Kind of hard to propose solutions on the spot when only Speaker for Life Robert Deleo knows what the legislature will approve for funding and the multitude of MBTA unions will accept in changes to operational practices.
Also kinda hard when the gov
Also kinda hard when the gov has taken taxes and fees off the table.
It may be time
That we put the MBTA out of their misery - lay everyone off and start over - everyone can reapply for their jobs to an entirely new entity under new unions. Legal nightmare perhaps, but as the governor said - this is unacceptable and it's time for drastic change. Heads need to roll - figuratively but liberally.
Oh yeah. And Olympics. Fish won't stand for this (or in his case swim?)
Way to be bias
He has said multiple times over the past 2 weeks he plans on reviewing and proposing a plan to combate the Ts inefficiencies. He plans on issuing recommendations in the next few weeks.
I know you're used to your liberal agenda of taxation and spending, but maybe reviewing how the T is apporperating its funds is a good start. Seeing how Deval left the budget in shambles.
It's Feb 9th, about 4 weeks into he's Governirship why don't you give it some time. Or maybe he could borrow Obamas Magic liberal wand.
Obviously
There's no money left to plunder from the state's spelling-education budget.
I love you.
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"apporperating"
Priceless! You made my day.
That "word" just sounds so great to not have a meaning. Let's give it one. Here's my idea:
Definition: apporperate (v). Acting like the MBTA on a snow day. Example: "Even on a sunny day the 66 bus route apporperates." Reflexive version: "Radical Tea Party activists apporperated themselves while wildly ranting about President Obama."
Other suggestions?
also an adjective
apporperate (adj): not completely irrelevant, but too skewed to be appropriate. "References to Obama's Liberal Magic Wand are entirely apporperate in this context."
Oh, well then
If he's planning on issuing recommendations, I guess the problem is as good as solved.
Viva Baker!
It really bothers me for
It really bothers me for Baker to keep calling the MBTA's performance unacceptable, when he is arguably the cause for many of the T's troubles. If he hadn't saddled the agency with so much debt from the big dig the T could have invested a lot more in preventative maintenance and keeping the system in a state-of-good-repair so that they would be able to function better during these storms.
Between screwing over the T financially under Weld and Cellucci, and now cutting the transportation budget as Governor, in my opinion Baker has absolutely no right to criticize the T.
As the governor it's his JOB
As the governor it's his JOB to criticize the MBTA or any other state agency when it falls flat on its face.
Maybe...
Maybe he shouldn't have tied its shoelaces together, then!