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We should not ignore unless permitting and red tape which everyone does.

A bunch of them may be connecting through hubs or onward to international flights those are harder to displace with train vs. trip where NYC is the destination.

The T would use GAGAP and not GAAP. Government accounting is not the same as commercial accounting. I’m not sure that lease accounting is as important as cash flow to the T on this point.

I didn’t point to the T as the decision maker. I said they should not increase costs and lower revenues when they are facing a massive operational deficit whether the T or the state makes the bad decision is irrelevant. When your have a massive mismatch between revenues and expenses the first...

my original point was school costs kept increasing even though student population was decreasing. Someone said it’s all special ed costs but that’s not the whole story which is my point.

I never said it would solve all of the problem. But when the boat is taking on water, you don’t drill another hole in the hull, however small. MBTA is a very poor spender. It is trying to catch up but has been lighting funds on fire for decades.

It is a spending problem. I would suggest that expanding to South Coast isn’t cost effective neither is new BEBs when we had trackless trolleys. The new gate system and CRRC cars were handled ‘poorly’. The pensions are a disaster too. Spending hasn’t decreased.

But the money still has to come from somewhere. We just raised taxes $1.8b a year for transportation and education.

No state party. The statement was “business meetings”

Is the E to D connection in Brookline Village still physically possible?

So why are they expanding free and reduced fare rides if they are $700m in the hole?

Interesting. I’ve never been to a business meeting in Europe and had a US flag present.

Boston-NY-Philadelphia-Washington DC

Wellesley has a density of almost 3k/sq mi and Needham 2.6k sq mi. Denser than most would guess.

But also a faster decreasing percentage of students overall, so no, I don’t. You take one statistic and make that the sole reason for cost increases. You’re ignoring excessive bus routes, excess half used buildings they won’t shut, excessive administrators and overhead etc.

It wouldn’t preclude a B to B connector so you could go from A to C without having to walk all the way around B

For the 18-19 school year to the 22-23 school year (latest I could see information for) the overall population decreased 8.7% and the SPED population increased 7.6%. Overall in Mass, student population is down 4.2% and SPEd population is up by 4.8%. So I still don’t see why Boston’s costs are...

You answered what costs were increasing but not why they were increasing relative to student population or other districts. Overall, there is a bloat in administrators and cost of education that is laughable. No accountability at the city level. And the education is generally below average for...

Goes back to the 1960s. They built the supports between the rail lines in a 1980s upgrade to south station.

There are two loops not four currently. So it’s not a cloverleaf.