BOSTON — Elected officials were among those joining protests Monday as Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority fare increases took effect.
Boston.com quotes organizers as saying at least 350 people took part in the protests at commuter rail and subway stations throughout the MBTA system to protest across-the-board, 6% fare hikes. The protests, dubbed the Boston T Party — the MBTA system is widely referred to by locatls as the T — were led by Boston City Council member Michelle Wu. She has called for making the system fare-free and wants local governments to have a seat on the board overseeing the MBTA.
At least four other Boston city council members and more than a dozen council candidates took part in the protests, the news site reports, along with state and municipal officials at outlying commuter stations.
The fare hikes come at a time when the MBTA is reviewing its operations in the wake of two derailments in a four-day span in June. [See “MBTA assembles expert panel to review operations,” Trains News Wire, June 25, 2019.]
The politicians looking for votes demand the T to fix all it’s troubles that were caused by deferred maintenance caused by a lack of funding because politicians would not provide the funding.
I have about concluded that the politicians looking to make everything free should start with their own labors and henceforth serve in office for free.
Fight the fare increase,
Vote for George O’Brien,
And get poor Charley off the MTA.
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Free this, free that, free everything, taking it out of the pockets of the productive and responsible middle class and working class. That’s the new manthra of the Democrat Fascist Party. Make everything free. There isn’t a lower species on this earth than that bunch.
Maybe instead of Colin Kaepernicking protesting a 6% fare hike the elected officials should see what’s going on and how to make it better. Isn’t that their job? Not joining a bunch of whining protesters in the street.
My current state senator (a Republican), back when he was a state assemblyman from a nearby district, did some digging and found out that the U-Wisconsin system was hiding money. No one else knew that, not even then-Governor Scott K. Walker. Amazing, one elected official, and I do mean one, did his job.