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Khearnei t1_je10ken wrote

I never quite understood why we don’t go overseas for stuff like this. Like, get me some people from the Swiss’s train system and have them weigh in. America’s public infrastructure lies on a spectrum of “well, it exists” to “serviceable”. There is no truly exceptional public transportation here. The big boys are all overseas. Call them in.

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MongoJazzy t1_je1oc8f wrote

There is no need to go to Switzerland to find people who are capable of operating a commuter rail system.

Our major impediment is that we typically recycle political hacks who have no idea what they are doing and are largely incompetent. That is why we see people like Pete Buttigieg as transportation secretary - he's totally inexperienced and incompetent at Transportation. So was his predecessor Elaine Chao.

Both parties do this - its not a partisan issue: they put incompetent people in important jobs and then wonder why government services are a complete failure.

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NoButThanks t1_je19xov wrote

It'd be a downgrade to move here, that's why.

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NoButThanks t1_je32bw1 wrote

Getting the down votes, but clearly the MBTA can't compete with foreign rail head salaries.

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