The MBTA May Never Run (The Same) Again

Remember all that MBTA budget brouhaha? It's going to be irrelevant if the state doesn't help the agency. Without assistance, the T will eliminate tons of services: cut service by half on bus and subway lines in the evening and on weekends, get rid of evening and weekend commuter rail entirely, scrap several bus routes, ditch six green line stops, and fire over 800 employees. Maybe we can do without those employees, but those green line stops? Come on! It's really the halving of night service that concerns us: not everybody works 9 to 5, and the cuts could have negative impact on many folks who really depend on the service to get to work. A solution needs to be negotiated, and soon.