Bankruptcy is now arriving at the station

Noah Bierman wraps up all the bad financial news facing the MBTA, the red-headed stepchild of financially troubled Massachusetts transportation agencies.

And the state's top transportation official is now fighting with and could be about to be fired by Gov. Patrick.

The Outraged Liberal worries:

If state transportation officials handle the growing financial mess of the MBTA the same way they are proposing to bailout the Turnpike Authority, we are probably looking at a $4 ride on the Green, Red, Orange and Blue lines. ...