Posting reddit because I'm not going to remake the twitter post myself. Rep. William Straus is now suggesting the FTA take over the whole thing.
I'll be honestly I don't really follow the guy, but I do remember the last time I saw his name on this board, he was called a gaslighter with a context of suggesting to end the MBTA and absorb it into MassDOT. Fed Takeover or State takeover, I'm not sure if he's trying to make fake political bluffs, make it someone else problems, or genuinely see it as solutions.
I am the person who called Straus a gaslighter, in this post. That was based on my experience on watching him in action six years ago trying to convince Wareham and Bourne town leaders and the public to support the South Coast Rail project's crappy phase 1, routing commuter rail trains via Middleborough, as he claimed it would advance prospects for commuter rail to Buzzards Bay as well, even though phase 1 would remove the option of extending the existing Middleborough/Lakeville service trains as a direct service to Buzzards Bay.
More critically, I don't know what would actually work to fix it. My gut says the Feds are probably best (Though painful still)
And that's the problem. This boils down to management accountability. At this point, I am long convinced that's not coming from the current (and likely next) governor, the state legislature, MBTA chairman Steve Poftak or the MBTA board of directors. So yeah, federal intervention looks to be the best of dismal options, unless this becomes a state election issue.