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Sure, but why should the MBTA care about the Providence Line in particular, as opposed to say, Worcester or other parts of Massachusetts?
by tabeth 9y ago
Sure, but why should the MBTA care about the Providence Line in particular, as opposed to say, Worcester or other parts of Massachusetts?
- tacomonstrous 9y agoProbably because it earns the most revenue, given its usage and distance.
- tabeth 9y agoGiven that the MBTA is a money losing organization I'm not sure revenue maximization is necessarily the strategy that should be sought.
- SamReidHughes 9y agoIt's how you measure whether you're doing something useful.
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- dogecoinbase 9y agoNo, because then it's what's optimized for. It's like if you run a hospital "like a business" -- it becomes optimized for making money at the expense of patient care.
- briandear 9y agoHospitals ARE a business.
- Mz 9y agoThe majority of US hospitals are not for profit. https://bizfluent.com/profit-vs-non-profit-hospitals-9733.html https://bizfluent.com/profit-vs-non-profit-hospitals-9733.ht...
- SamReidHughes 9y agoIt's not like a hospital at all -- not that many hospitals couldn't benefit from being run better. The revenue of a train line is proportional to passengers served and forms a baseline for the total value the passengers received from the service. There's no problems with stuff like quality of passenger care.
- srj 9y agoIt's the most traveled line.
- tabeth 9y agoSure, but by that logic, why not extend rapid transit -- it's far more traveled than all of the commuter rail lines combined.