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90 minutes and counting on a train

UPDATE: Would you believe a three-hour delay on the Worcester line?

No, not on the Green Line, which is having major problems tonight, but on the Worcester commuter-rail line.

Kristen Garvey reports from somewhere not all that far out of South Station:

Okay, MBTA, we have been stuck here for close to 90 min. Can u send the rescue train? Mass Pike you look better everyday.

Patricia Lupien adds:

The natives are getting restless. I think other passengers are drawing straws to make a sacrifice.

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A little behind in my reading of liposuction and fat camp ads, but I picked up February's Boston magazine and they had a nice USA Today style article on the T's sorry state that wasn't bad.

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There are now "power problems in the Arlington/Boylston area." All lines experiencing 15-20 min delays.

Alert issued at 11:02 PM.

Anyone have info?

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According to this tweet.

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Bustitution now occuring from Kenmore to Gov't Center. E-line passengers must use the 39.

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The B-Line had "power problems" earlier in the day. Can't blame the delays on snow, so they've had to come up with a next fits-all excuse?

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No money for the maintenance which has been deferred for years.

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Well, at least we all got to pay for a really nice highway!

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Well, at least we all got to pay for a really nice highway!

If you mean that by buying gasoline, you paid your gas tax, then yeah. Maybe if they added a fuel tax to your train ticket, there would be money for train maintenance.

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the gas tax hasn't covered the roads for years now...

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The gas tax has a big chunk taken out to pay for public transportation. How much of public transportation goes into roads? This really isn't difficult to understand - car drivers subsidize public transportation twice - in general taxes, and in gas taxes. There is no dispute.

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The gas tax in MA goes entirely to state transportation infrastructure (i.e. roads and bridges). The entirety of the MBTA budget comes from 20% of the sales tax and its own system generated revenue (fares, parking fees, investments, land sales/rental, advertising, etc).

"Car drivers" don't subsidize public transportation in MA one bit except when they buy something that has sales tax on it for their cars.

Educate yourself.

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Gas taxes do not in any way subsidize mass transit. They don't even cover the cost of road building and repair.

Highways don’t pay for themselves -- Since 1947, the amount of money spent on highways, roads and streets has exceeded the amount raised through gasoline taxes and other so-called “user fees” by $600 billion (2005 dollars), representing a massive transfer of general government funds to highways.

Driving an internal combustion powered vehicle is the single most subsidized form of transportation in the United States.

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He meant it because the MBTA is saddled with so much Big Dig debt transfer from the state that it can't afford to do everything necessary to keep everything maintained correctly.

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I'm not sure where all the moronic right-wing trolls have been coming from, but we must be doing something right if we're attracting their ire.

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8:20 train left at the normal time, but with only one conductor -- everyone had to crowd into the last two cars.

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Took my wife 2.5 hours to get home last night from S. Station to Southboro. The train lost power, so they had another train join up and push them, and because there was another train, each stop actually had to stop twice to let people off.

Couple that with a lousy morning commute and she was on the train for over 4 hours yesterday. Ouch.

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Have they tried hair nets?

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Then tell your state representatives that it's time to unsaddle the state's Big Dig debt from the MBTA for starters!

It was a failed attempt to balance the state's books using (intentionally?) faulty extrapolation on the sales tax.

If THEY don't want to deal with this issue, then MAKE THEM.

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What do we occupy, where and when?

As Billy Bragg says, active with the activists or sleeping with the sleepers ... (except they are replacing all the sleepers made of concrete ...)

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