(RNS) — I'm Jewish. And while it's true I wasn't born in New York City to native New York parents, which according to English common law precludes my being considered a natural-born New Yorker, I grew up in Montclair, N.J., from which my father commuted into the City every day to work, eventually at The New York Times.
Boston's public transportation system, the MBTA, is in a death spiral. Each year, the system needs to charge more for poorer services and finds itself further in debt. The system's managers annually come to the state with demands for more public funding in order to keep the system from going completely out of business.
It's time to show some tough love! We need to simply announce that the MBTA system will be closed in 2020. Rather than continuing to invest more and more in an unsustainable system, Boston should make plans for a post-MBTA future.
