Could we add more frequency? Then more people may actually take the service.

If I owned a boston-area restaurant I would for sure have a "weston whopper" on the menu as a joke.

Good luck! Around 30 is when people either move to suburbia or leave Boston for larger cities.

Edit: Also, as a long-time New Englander, I am tired of spending time making friends with people that are transplants that move away. So now I don't even bother.

MBTA ridership is now back up to around 70%. Which is higher than other transit agencies. Just because some people can work from home, doesn't mean that everyone can. In fact most of the people that really keep the city functioning do not work from home.

The Pioneer "Institute" is a right-wing thinktank and should not be taken seriously as news.

So then what are you complaining about? I really don't get this post. You know it's a public agency. You know they can't just increase the salaries. So guess what they have to start more intense recruiting efforts.

OP we get it, you were rejected from the MBTA and are salty about it.

You do realize that IT positions are very competitive these days, and the T is a public agency with a low budget--and can only offer low salaries. And is currently managed by a governor that likes to privatize things for the sake of privatization.

Yes, a lot of their IT jobs should probably be Full-Time jobs and not endless contractor jobs. But guess what, until we have a Governor that isn't pro-privatizing everything, and a public that accepts that it now costs more every year to run service because transportation has increasingly required more technology, that's what it is.

OP, you clearly don't know. Get back to NYC and don't let the door on your Model 3 hit you on the way out

Boston is not about flexing. It's old money not new money. Model 3's won't help you bro. You'll have to rely on your personality--and if it's like this post I'd say give up

It's really too bad. With the new orange line trains the T finally had a chance to have consistent automated announcements throughout the entire system: and instead they went "full Keolis commuter rail" and decided to use crappy text-to-speech instead. WTF.

What's even dumber is Frank clearly recorded the new platform announcements of "The next train to Union Square is now arriving". So why couldn't they pay him to be in the recording booth just a little longer to do the rest?

This isn't Philly or NYC. We are known for our anti-social scene. In Boston, dating apps are really big and are really the only socially-acceptable way to meet people.