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Well, I recognize this is a joke. I would enjoy having a simulation where you inherit and hold poorly maintained subway system like the Boston MBTA and have to

Well, I recognize this is a joke. I would enjoy having a simulation where you inherit and hold poorly maintained subway system like the Boston MBTA and have to bring it back to health with all the challenges these systems face

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mauvehaus 1y ago
Isn't the principal problem with the MBTA that it's been underfunded for decades and has a maintenance backlog of about a gazillion dollars? I realize it's getting better on the rolling stock front, but it sounds like the track is still a challenge despite some real efforts to address some of the problems. I do kind of miss riding it though. For the last couple years I was living there, I got to ride the Ashmont-Mattapan trolleys as part of my commute. That was a treat. One of the last weeks before we moved to Vermont, my wife rode down to Ashmont with me and rode the trolley to Mattapan, then back to Ashmont to take the Red Line back to her office.
- cwmma 1y ago
  Under Eng it has apparently turned around in the last year or so.
  - 0xbeefcab 1y ago
    yeah its been surprisingly usable this year. a lot less delays and a decent amount faster
  - nixpulvis 1y ago
    I rode it a lot from 2011 to 2019, and still do though less frequently. I don't presonally feel things were ever as bac as point like to claim they were, and I'm not really sure what's been "improved" so much. The biggest changes are that you can pay with tap to pay everywhere, which is nice, and the trains drive a lot more cautiously, which irritates me because they feel considerably slower now.
    - brewdad 1y ago
      I can live with slow but consistent versus faster sometimes and late or even unavailable at other times. For a while there the Green Line only made sense for students who valued saving a few bucks at the expense of an unknown amount of time.
xp84 1y ago
You can already play that game, just put a static picture of the system map on your screen, then click all over the place and watch nothing improve
wyre 1y ago
This makes me realize simulations like this will be possible with AI at some point, and could be an interesting way for a city to hire employees

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mauvehaus 1y ago

Isn't the principal problem with the MBTA that it's been underfunded for decades and has a maintenance backlog of about a gazillion dollars? I realize it's getting better on the rolling stock front, but it sounds like the track is still a challenge despite some real efforts to address some of the problems. I do kind of miss riding it though. For the last couple years I was living there, I got to ride the Ashmont-Mattapan trolleys as part of my commute. That was a treat. One of the last weeks before we moved to Vermont, my wife rode down to Ashmont with me and rode the trolley to Mattapan, then back to Ashmont to take the Red Line back to her office.

cwmma 1y ago
Under Eng it has apparently turned around in the last year or so.
- 0xbeefcab 1y ago
  yeah its been surprisingly usable this year. a lot less delays and a decent amount faster
- nixpulvis 1y ago
  I rode it a lot from 2011 to 2019, and still do though less frequently. I don't presonally feel things were ever as bac as point like to claim they were, and I'm not really sure what's been "improved" so much. The biggest changes are that you can pay with tap to pay everywhere, which is nice, and the trains drive a lot more cautiously, which irritates me because they feel considerably slower now.
  - brewdad 1y ago
    I can live with slow but consistent versus faster sometimes and late or even unavailable at other times. For a while there the Green Line only made sense for students who valued saving a few bucks at the expense of an unknown amount of time.

xp84 1y ago

You can already play that game, just put a static picture of the system map on your screen, then click all over the place and watch nothing improve

wyre 1y ago

This makes me realize simulations like this will be possible with AI at some point, and could be an interesting way for a city to hire employees