Great stuff here with city giving real incentives for employees to take transit, but the reported initial results: # of city staff ordering a monthly pass rose from 747 to 1,319….that’s out of 18k employees! These numbers are abysmal. govtech.com/fs/boston-mayo…

I also want to apologize for breaking our OTP (On Time Performance) yesterday. We had to delay some of our trains to give a way to #RailForceOne. It was painful for me and my team, but I had to do that. So only 90% of our trains arrived on time yesterday. I apologize.

Finally finding some quiet time to read (and enjoy) Holy Spokes, a book by Rev. Laura Everett. Thank you for the personal story, and the interwoven thoughts on and invitation to daily meditation within the rhythms of urban transit!

To celebrate the last day of #BlackHistoryMonth, we have a bonus Black transit leader profile: TransitMatters' very own Jarred Johnson!

An easy to follow play by play from ⁦Streetsblog MASS⁩ on how stepped up oversight inspections and discovery of Red Line track defects prompted the system wide MBTA slowdown mass.streetsblog.org/2023/03/15/how…

it would have been great for Jon Chesto to talk to anyone outside of MassDOT for this article—he might have learned that SSX isn’t necessary for anything he talks about in the article and is a huge waste of $$$ bostonglobe.com/2023/03/17/bus…

TransitMatters Executive Director Jarred Johnson tore into the MBTA Board of Directors, saying it was failing riders with the “hands-off approach” taken during a time of crisis for the agency. trib.al/tltZWsp

NEW from @CommonWealthMag: Jarjoh 🟥🚰🌇 of TransitMatters says Healey should pause MBTA GM search and let interim GM Jeff Gonneville push forward w/improvements, while urging her to replace Baker appointees to new T board, which he calls “unequivocal failure.” commonwealthmagazine.org/opinion/pause-…

Here’s hoping MBTA chief Phillip Eng is where the buck stops, the empathy starts - The Boston Globe bostonglobe.com/2023/03/27/opi…

We should be able to fund and electrify the Providence Line and the Fairmount Line by the end of Gov Healey’s first term, but we won’t if the MBTA sticks to the current draft Capital Investment Plan (CIP). commonwealthmagazine.org/opinion/the-di…

A few thoughts on electric buses, and why conversion to electric is not as simple as it seems.

Best part: “Due to its proximity to the MBTA Green, Red, and Orange lines, the project is not proposed to include any parking for cars or other vehicles, though bike parking is included.” bostonglobe.com/2023/04/04/bus…

Finally after so much hand wringing we’ve come to senses and decided that even -gasp- libraries can have housing over the ground floor. To bad this comes after my local branch was rehabbed as only a single story affair. bostonglobe.com/2023/04/06/bus…

A hundred years of choking housing growth catches up with Massachusetts - The Boston Globe bostonglobe.com/2023/04/10/opi…

This news is a breath of fresh air! Hopefully many more stories like this will be coming: With high costs and little new housing, Lexington becomes first town to meet ambitious new zoning law - The Boston Globe bostonglobe.com/2023/04/13/bus…

I just royally pissed off the ice cream man by letting my 6yo daughter pay for her frozen treat with change counted out of the coin purse that she brought along solely in hopes of seeing an ice cream truck. He’s lucky I made her stick to quarters! But srsly $5 bomb pop!?

Massachusetts needs a housing moon shot bostonglobe.com/2023/05/31/opi… via The Boston Globe

Regional Rail provides equitable, fast, & frequent alternatives to cars. A fully realized Regional Rail system would provide subway-equivalent service, with peak trains as frequent as every 5-7 min. 🚉⚡️ Read TransitMatters NEW REPORT: static1.squarespace.com/static/533b9a2…

Really needs to happen this time!—West Roxbury road plan would make Centre Street safer bostonglobe.com/2023/06/06/opi…

To meet new state housing law, Newton aims to make its villages a little taller - could add 10k units in 3% of land area mostly by adding a few floors in village commercial areas! bostonglobe.com/2023/06/05/bus…