langjie t1_jd6ke3a wrote on March 22, 2023 at 4:58 AM

Reply to comment by Thiccaca in They’ve Been Warned: Attorney General Says Suburbs ‘Must Comply’ With Transit-Oriented Housing Law by psychothumbs

you literally can't get on a red line train unless you get on by quincy center in the morning and they want to force what now?

Thiccaca t1_jd75tyy wrote on March 22, 2023 at 9:51 AM

Exactly. How is more people riding the solution here? This also reeks of the "Olympic solution," they floated a few years back. "If we hold the Olympics, the MBTA will be forced to get better."

These people are sociopaths.

Also, I assure you, every single one of them drives to work.

Marco_Memes t1_jd7j2f8 wrote on March 22, 2023 at 12:18 PM

They probably thought more people riding=more money for the T, while failing to consider that even if 50 million people packed into the T each day their funding would just get cut even more for a new highway and we would be back at square 1. Their thought process isn’t totally stupid, in a perfect world more riders WOULD equal more funding and better service. But we don’t live in a perfect world, we live in Massachusetts, where we canceled a gigantic public transport scheme (the urban ring project) because all the funding got directed towards the worlds most expensive example of induced demand. Who needs a project that’ll have a ridership of 300k per day and remove 50k cars from the road when we can build an highway that doesn’t actually fix the problem, and just puts it underground?