When transit systems collapse

What’s wrong with this picture?

The Boston area transit system used its resources today to salt and shovel the entrances to its subway system, which is closed today.

This man hoping to take a train at Porter Square, Cambridge, finds the station closed. pic.twitter.com/ZHu8xJPDCx

— Robin Lubbock (@RLubb) February 10, 2015

If you want to get around the country’s 10th-largest metropolitan area, you better own a car today.

More transit: To Save Money on Building Rail, Spend Money on Marketing Buses (NY Times).

More weather: Twin Cities suffers from "snow envy" (KARE).

About the blogger

Bob Collins

bcollins@mpr.org • @newscut

Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.