That's not the best summary of but dig debt out there. I can send one of the many better ones tomorrow if anyone wants to read it.
TLDR; that was originally written to the Pioneer institute, a conservative think-tank. On that side, Poftak wrote some other, bizarre, seemingly anti-transit posts.
My main gripe with this article is the fact that it doesn't mention what I believe to be a major cause of declining ridership... service.
Right now, Boston has no good way of getting into town; you either sit in gridlock on I-93, or you deal with the unreliable and slow MBTA.
Yes, many people...
I wanted to do that last year with the special discount, but there was just nowhere I wanted to take a daytrip to.
Maybe in the summer when Old Orchard Beach is open.
I don't spend as much tine in that part of Massachusetts as I probably should. Hopefully East-West rail gets built at some point so its a little easier to get to Western Mass.