F-Line to Dudley
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It also gets them a "get out of charging" free card on BEB deployments elsewhere on the system when their initial BEB deployment is born to fail and born to waste money. "Oooh...we can't possibly tackle Roxbury emissions. Look how bad our initial BEB rollout in Cambridge ended up falling on its face! Who could ever have guessed things would be so hard?!?!" FFS...why else are the largest garages on the system all slated dead-ass-last to get upgraded for even the possibility of BEB servicing. This is a de facto "diesel forever" manifesto they're pushing. It doesn't have to be that way. 1st-gen BEB's can absolutely be part of a sane fleet mixture if they picked their spots, leveraged their strengths. They're pre-salting the earth from that ever being a possibility of happening.I think our definition of fail strongly differs from the T's definition. The clear intention is to get rid of the wires and the road projects provide such a good opportunity for them to do so, they've got to contort reality to make a case for it. Once the wires are down, it's a success for the T. By the time it's clear that we're living la vida diesel for the long term for the 71/73, it'll be "too expensive" to go back. The T gets what it wants, so it's a win for them.
I am so done with Baker and "governance by Pioneer Institute hackery". Every study his cronies get their hands on just intrinsically becomes a blank canvas to lie their faces off with alternate facts, alternate math, alternate reality. And they no longer even care enough to put an ounce of effort into the presentation. The basis of reality itself has been disparaged.