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Originally Posted by mcgrath618
I wanted to avoid getting involved here because I don't want this to turn into city v city but I just want to point out that this is flagrantly false. The MBTA is one of the worst run transit agencies in the country and has spent the last year making the news almost weekly with derailments, accidents, and cancellations. The Orange Line is completely shut down at the moment (along with their brand new Green Line Extension) and the red/blue lines are running with frequencies worse than the Paoli Thorndale Line. The other week a subway caught on fire over the river and people had to evacuate.
The MBTA is not a selling point for Boston.
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SEPTA is an easy target for many valid reasons, but to their credit for the last decade or two they have resisted the call to expand without the funding being in place to service that increased footprint. As in the much talked about K of P expansion; even if the building and capital improvement is fully funded, a couple thousand, at best, new riders per day won't come anywhere close to covering the additional operating and maintenance costs. I'm glad SEPTA is concerned about such dirty little details. But SEPTA has spent time and money on slowly making improvements and updates to the existing system. Give them another 40 or 50 years and it might be a pretty smooth operation!
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