{"id":380,"date":"2008-07-16T13:33:06","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T17:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/?p=380"},"modified":"2008-10-03T21:44:44","modified_gmt":"2008-10-04T01:44:44","slug":"red-line-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/2008\/07\/red-line-expectations\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Line Expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday morning I woke up, rolled out of bed, and checked the news.  Boston.com was reporting a <a href=\"http:\/\/universalhub.com\/node\/15540\">disabled train on the Longfellow Bridge<\/a>, and lots of busing.<\/p>\n<p>Today the Globe has a story about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/massachusetts\/articles\/2008\/07\/16\/summer_of_discontent_on_red_line\/\">summer of discontent<\/a> on the Red Line.  Key quote from Lydia Rivera, a T spokeswoman: &#8220;People that choose to take the system do realize that with public transportation, you are going to encounter delays.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What?!  She thinks I should <strong>expect<\/strong> delays?  She thinks it&#8217;s normal that public transportation is unpredictable?  What a load of crap!<\/p>\n<p>There are plenty of public transportation systems out there that run consistently on time.  Munich and Tokyo come to mind, and I wager there are other examples closer to home.<\/p>\n<p>I think that quote speaks volumes about the attitude of MBTA management and employees.  They expect to suck.  When they do suck, they&#8217;re just meeting expectations.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what it takes to turn that around, but until the MBTA expects better of itself, we&#8217;re stuck with &#8220;expecting delays.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday morning I woke up, rolled out of bed, and checked the news. Boston.com was reporting a disabled train on the Longfellow Bridge, and lots of busing. Today the Globe has a story about the summer of discontent on the Red Line. Key quote from Lydia Rivera, a T spokeswoman: &#8220;People that choose to take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-massachusetts","category-mbta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}