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MBTA exec who supervised large projects from homes in other states is no longer with the T

The Globe reports the T won't say if the guy was fired - just days before the new general manager was named - but says he is no longer supervising anything for the T from his homes in Hawaii and Delaware, among other places that are nowhere near the MBTA service area.

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And that's just the beginning. Drain the corrupt swamp. Gimme my money back! MBTA. More Bad Taxpayer Abuse.

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This actually explains alot

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Joe Pesaturo was not at the Eng press conference in Newton. One has to wonder if Pesaturo has departed as well. For the unitiated, he is/was the press person for the MBTA.

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Hopefully he's been canned. The press office was perhaps the most disgraceful element of the T under baker, and that's a high bar. They transformed it it from an organ to inform the public into a campaign organ for the governor. They claimed easy and false victories for political clout while repeatedly hiding uncomfortable truths about the real state of the T. There desperation to pretend there wasn't a crisis gave the public a false impression of the state of the agency and almost certainly both prolonged the crisis and made it worse. If anyone should be gone it is him.

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This is Guvnuh Healey doing exactly what will make me love her, no notes.

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and ... wt*f* was Charlie Baker actually doing? What a disgrace.

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He was privatizing what elements of the T he could while letting the rest collapse to justify further privatization.

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also where was the Globe? they could have clowned this guy out on the front page years ago, do they ride the T? are they paying any attention to how anything in the commonwealth other than the Patriots is operated?

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Their former editor left about six weeks ago and the change in coverage is already noticable. Many more stories about the T that contain actual reporting. Front page news has been more serious and less vapid.

The Globe has plenty of faults but I see some improvements and hope they continue.

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The difference in Globe coverage (actually crucially covering the MBTA instead of just telling us things are getting better) has I borne mostly to do with their politics. Under their favorite govearbor, Baker, they were reluctant to be critical of his handling of the T or even the T generally. It was always excuses and “policy wonk Baker” is doing great!! It makes sense for a right of center publication like them owned by a billionaire hedge fund manager I guess. Now that Baker is gone and there’s a democratic governor they are starting to investigate things like the MBTA again.

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This would have been chum to the Herald reporters.

Ah, for the good old days.

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to find that out!

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For what he claimed was stellar management of the MBTA

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Under Deval.

The whole agency is a joke and had been for decades.

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... and any problems that pre-existed his term only got worse -- due to incompetence and neglect -- during those 8 years.

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Purposefully neglecting and underfunding public transportation so he could erode public support for it, privatize it, and cash in on it. That's been the right wing playbook when it comes to public goods forever.

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Baker’s gone. Blaming him is like waving your fist at the clouds.

What about the MA legislation? They could have funded the MBTA, but chose not to. Just like Baker.

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Anything and everything with be Bakers fault for the next 4 year or more.

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There, I just gave you the entirety of the GOP political playbook, gratis.

You’re welcome. I’m sorry the world is so, so unfair to rich white guys from Swellesley. The rest of us have a society, too.

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The GOP are the Washington Generals. They will always lose. They will never have power. Blaming anything on the GOP in a state where the Ds control everything is disingenuous. A GOP governor is easily overridden my the Legislature.

These are just the facts or please correct me if I’m wrong.

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A republican governor with an agenda of privatization was in charge for 8 years. In those 8 years he privatized various T functions, attempted to privatize even more, and appointed people who shared his vision for the destruction of public services into leadership (such as fellow pioneer institute member Steve Poftak). This is deeply relevant to the contemporary crisis and pretending that republicans are irrelevant doesn't change that.

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Who is he? He was a big privatization guy iirc.

There is a lot of reasons no thinking person is a Republican, and only stupid assholes are. Take it from someone under the age of 75 — the GOP is dead.

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It's certainly dead in Massachusetts. Its moldering corpse still twitches with latent Trumpian impulses, but it looks like we're not going to see any more viable candidates for Governor from that sector. Now, if we could just do something about the corporate Democrats in the legislature ...

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The question I was answering was literally "wt*f* was Charlie Baker actually doing?" I didn't say he's the only person to blame. Don't you have something else to get your knickers in a twist about?

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Was this a covid thing? Or had he been doing it all along?

Even if it was a covid thing, it's disgraceful. MBTA drivers were taking a huge hit in the covid numbers because, obviously, they could never stay home. They were as essential as nurses and cops.

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For the first time, I think he might actually get indicted before this T scandal is over.

There'd have to be a lot more, of course, but this really reeks. How could he not know?

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To 'No Show Jobs' at the MBTA.

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First, medical directors at BPHC, now managers at MBTA. What is it with Hawaii?

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SVB bank president too. Yeah, I wonder what's so great about Hawaii.

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Fire them all and make them reapply for their jobs. Will be very easy to figure out who was doing their job and who was coasting.

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This is only the start of revealing what's under those rocks.

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Relax. Everything in life isn't a massive web of conspiratorial nonsense.

Some people are just lazy crooks who happen to work for a big bowl of cash masquerading as a broken transit system run by lazy cronies of lazy cousins of lazy elected officials.

Combine that with a Governor(s) who just wanted the next guy to deal with it and that's where we are today.

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Maura Healey actually has a good record of revealing what's buried in dysfunctional bureaucracy. When she became attorney general, she let the whole lab testing scandal come out, even though it greatly embarrassed her democratic predecessor Martha f'n Coakley, who in many ways, was a mentor to Maura on the way to becoming AG.

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Because JAY NEIDER shouldn't get to hide and scurry away behind a paywall.

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He is not the only one on the T that has this arrangement. It goes from the highest management down to the many clerks still working from home

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Given recent performance, the notion of an "MBTA service area" has been largely hypothetical anyway.

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This article:
https://americanbuildersquarterly.com/2022/jay-neider-mbta/

suggests he was the person who convinced Baker to shut-down the Orange Line for 30 days.
I think a lot of people at the MBTA did not see that as a great success, and that might have more to do with his termination that his remote work style

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The reporting in the Globe made it seem like everyone was on board with his "hydrid" schedule yet wanted him out. Having slow zones where there were slow zones a year ago isn't a good look.

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Riders now enjoy enhanced safety and reliable service on MBTA’s Orange Line

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