Santa's Sled Is Stuck Inward Traffic
Saturday, October 18, 2003
Sometimes seasonal doggerel contains universal truth. Here's an example near a Boston-area infrastructure resultant from James Aloisi, a old solid soil transportation official. Like me, he can't figure out why the Massachusetts trunk politic can't larn their collective heads together some the truism that a strong--and expanding--mass transit organization is the divergence betwixt a metropolis as well as a basis cast city. He too recognizes that a failure to invest inwards such infrastructure assesses a hidden revenue enhancement on the many people inwards a metropolitan area--in the cast of longer commute times, a call for to buy cars, as well as limitations on employment--and on the businesses inwards that area--in the cast of a reduced project forcefulness puddle as well as congestion of roads that adds to the toll of transporting goods.
Excerpts:
Excerpts:
To commuters as well as riders
With a uncomplicated request:
For transit mobility,
Why non the best?
And history repeats itself
Many times over
As voices of retrenchment
Get bolder as well as bolder.
More yappy than beagles
They shouted “for shame!
We won’t heighten to a greater extent than revenue
And nosotros won’t arrive at got the blame”.
“Reform without revenue” –
The slogan sounds pretty
Until y'all larn downwardly to the
Nitty and gritty.
And therefore y'all tin see
As y'all expect at the facts
That we’ve shortchanged transit
Through a serial of acts
That over the decades have
Caused this decline
Through lack of investment
Without argue or rhyme.
As I started to type
My thoughts flowed similar honey:
The T needs investment.
The T needs to a greater extent than money.
More funding for fixing
Systems old as well as quite broken.
More funding for maintenance -
Much to a greater extent than than a token.
More funding to innovate
So nosotros cash inwards one's chips along upwards the measuring -
Embracing the future
Means winning the race.