Michigander in Mass

MBTA's budget woes have continued, and its latest stab at cutting costs involed laying off or firing about 80 people, saving about $100K. It did this at right around the same time it allocated $9 million for engineering studies of Silver Line Phase III, a tunnel that will connect Phases I and II between South Station and Chinatown. Oh yeah, and...

One of [the] deadlines [noted in the Conservation Law Foundations planned lawsuit] was to provide Silver Line service to Logan Airport by last Friday. While Logan-bound buses won't be up and running until later this year, passengers will be able to transfer to a bus to Logan at the last stop on the Silver Line waterfront line, on Sundays from 4 to 10 p.m., said Joe Pesaturo, spokesman for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.

4 to 10 one day a week is Logan Silver Line service? I don't think so. So, while the T continues to spend money on expanding the Silver Line service--despite stalled development in the South Boston Waterfront, which is where a big chunk of its operating revenue was supposed to come from--South Shore MBTA commuters still don't have an easy way to get to the airport, despite the T's rediculous claim.

Meanwhile, we can't get a Green Line extension to what is already the most densely populated city in New England.