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They will have to fix Boston’s horribly broken subway system first.
by skwirl 3y ago
They will have to fix Boston’s horribly broken subway system first.
- HWR_14 3y agoEasier to do if you stop having to maintain tons of roadway and can move that money into mass transit.
- caditinpiscinam 3y agoWhen I lived in Boston I used the subway a lot and though it was ok. What makes you say it's broken? Has it gotten worse recently?
- spacephysics 3y agoRed line and blue line don’t connect. You need to take a bus to “connect” them
- smolder 3y agoOr the green line, or the orange line...
- whymauri 3y agoSince Fall of 2022, there's been a negative spiral within the MBTA. Primarily due to poor maintenance leading to: service cuts, full shutdown of certain lines, and the highest percentage of slow zones in recent history. Here's a graph of slow zones: https://old.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/11qtx82/red_line_slow_zones_since_october_9th_2020_rough/ https://old.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/11qtx82/red_line_sl... They are returning a good chunk of the system back to regular service this Summer, though. Edit: the slow zones might not be clear on that graph, but at one point the Red Line end-to-end was around 1-1.5 hours slower. Especially bad for commuters.
- natdempk 3y agoTransitMatters has a nice graph of the problem: https://dashboard.transitmatters.org/slowzones?startDate=2022-08-01 https://dashboard.transitmatters.org/slowzones?startDate=202...
- adgjlsfhk1 3y agothe subway only runs from 5:30 to 1am (so good luck getting to the airport for a morning flight). also it's been on fire and slow and often down for maintenance