Posted on 02/10/2015 8:38:46 PM PST by Second Amendment First
BOSTON — Rebekah Adelstone usually drives to work, which takes 15 minutes. Since record snows have fallen, she has not wanted to risk losing her precious parking spot, so she has taken a bus to the subway. But on Tuesday, after even more snow fell, the subway system was shut down. So she ended up taking two buses to work, and her commute stretched to two hours.
Her ordeal was typical of many residents, who soldiered through the more than six feet of snow that has piled up in the last 17 days. With no chance to melt, the snows have paralyzed this city, brought commerce to a near halt and sent roofs crashing down on numerous buildings, including a music store in Rockland, 30 miles southeast. Among the damaged goods was a $500,000 rhinestone-studded piano once owned by Liberace.
Most glaringly, the storms have exposed the vulnerabilities of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, which operates the region’s decrepit, fitful subways, buses and commuter rail lines. The underfunded system, which carries 1.3 million people a day and is $5.5 billion in debt, has been plagued in the last 17 days by breakdowns, fires, power losses, delays of two and three hours, and scenes of commuters having to disembark and pick their way along snow-covered tracks.
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State environmental officials are letting cities and towns dump snow into the ocean, which is usually banned because snow has many pollutants.
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She should move out of her socialist state, that’s what some here would say if it was California.
But you can bet the hack-o-rama infrastructure has all salaries, benefits and pensions fully funded.
Baloney. There’s PLENTY of money for infrastructure improvements, but it gets blown in the corrupt spoils system/unionized and bureaucratic thievery/political graft of Massachusetts liberalism.
Heck we get 6 feet up`n here `n we just get out the Stallion `n the Cutter.
Boston is wimpys wimpies wimpies..
Don’t forget about pension Ponzi schemes for transit employees.
“She should move out of her socialist state, that’s what some here would say if it was California.”
Well, at least here in California we don’t have 300 year old buildings and 100 year old infrastructure. But hey, give the RATS time and they will have this once proud state looking like Taxachusetts!
Look for the union label (as Algore's mother sang to him)
Let’s spend billions to ward of a 50 year event...that’s the ticket!
Infrastructure don't vote.
We may not have 300 year old buildings but try talking to the people of L.A. about their 100 year old water mains that have been bursting over the last couple of years.
State environmental officials are letting cities and towns dump snow into the ocean, which is usually banned because snow has many pollutants.
Where do they think it goes when it melts? Liberal idiocy has no bounds.
Perhaps the neo pagans in Boston can bring in high priest Algore. He can chant and beat his drum and the snow would all melt by June.
I can just picture those T employees sitting around on the clock, laughing at this situation, counting the days until their pensions kick in.
The entire transportation system in Massachusetts is rotten to the core. They spend billions with no means to pay other than relying on perennial bail outs by the legislature.
You have to kill somebody to lose your job and then only after a long process involving arbitration. The pensions are incredible and of course unsustainable.
Hey Boston..... this is just for you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9nO9Ro_kd4
Life is short...try to have some fun.
“Baloney. There’s PLENTY of money for infrastructure improvements, but it gets blown in the corrupt spoils system/unionized and bureaucratic thievery/political graft of Massachusetts liberalism.”
Within our extended family we have a business that has locations on both coasts. The union “labor” costs in New England are atrocious by comparison to the West Coast. And the unions have the politicians in their hip pocket.
Even the engineers who drive those trains/bus’s have to get to work in the snow.
So, RebeKah: how’s that global warming thing working out for ya?
Also ask her how effective her solar panels are in the snow. Hey, as long as we're asking liberals to question their reality! Any minute now, global warming will fix the snow problem!
What person in their right mind would want to get out in 6 feet of snow.
What employer would expect that from his employee?
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