The Herald reveals that good ol' Danny G. drives to work each day in his MBTA-owned SUV. At least the SUV is a hybrid--but it's still more environmentally damaging than public transportation, not to mention a burden on taxpayers. MBTA manager Grabauskas drives from Ipswich to Boston daily when he could take his own commuter rail instead. He argues that he needs the flexibility to go anywhere at anytime. Uh, and the rest of us don't? If the T doesn't work for Dan, it doesn't work for a lot of other people, either. Maybe if he took the commuter rail each day, he could spend that commuting time doing actual work to improve the T's services--rather than providing such shoddy (and expensive, particularly in terms of the commuter rail) service that people feel the need to drive instead. Or maybe Dan avoids the T because he's afraid of all the complaints he'd get if he had to mingle with the hoi polloi. Try the taking T into town at least once a week, would you, Dan? You can drive your SUV around the city once you get here if you feel the need.

Update: This is old news, but that doesn't make it any less ridiculous.