Today in news that everyone who was at all paying attention saw coming from a mile away:
Globe: New Chelsea Silver Line hits bridge delays
First off, thanks for posting that. If you didn't make the connection, I am the guy who was interviewed (Kris) in the article.
Adam called me like out of the blue today while i was at work. Which is odd, he usually emails me first to schedule at time. I think he was trying to get this published today.
But this was a few phone calls over a few weeks. He's working on a few stories, and since I am the Silver Line Guy (and a ROC member), he called to get my opinion.
Anyways..
First off, Adam references my rider log. It can be seen
here if you are curious.
And he kept asking me for my answer on how to fix the bridge issue. Frankly, outside of a tunnel (which I explained to him), there's not alot that can be done. I said what could be done in the article. Not much.
I mean, we knew this was going to happen. We did. Its expected. And there's not much we can do to fix it.
However.. one thing Adam glazed over, was I wrote a "Silver Line Improvement Plan" (it can be
seen here), which I outlined many ways to improve the line as a whole. If we could fix some of these issues, the bridge issue, while still a big deal, would be off set by the time savings elsewhere.
As I said, when the service is good.. its great. But when its bad its really bad. So lets try to make it good a good portion of time, even with the bridge issues.
I know i've asked this before, but I want to re-ask the question again, because Adam kept asking me this question, and outside already discussed issues, I was out of ideas.
Outside of a Tunnel or a bridge being built for the SL over the Chelsea Creek, what are YOUR recommendations to mitigate the bridge issue?