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Commuter Rail Neglect: The Next Step
On my Friday commuter home there were 28 standees in my coach. There were no empty seats.
It's obvious that the T management isn't going to do anything about it. Nor is the political management. So it occurred to me that there are probably some federal laws about overcrowding and train capacity. I mean 28 people standing in a 122-person capacity coach has GOT to be a safety hazard, right?
Perhaps I should be looking into blowing the whistle to the Federal Department of Transportation. Or maybe some sort of class-action suit would be more appropriate. In any case, it's clearly necessary to move forward, because the entire MBTA bureaucracy and the state government are simply ignoring the situation. And I feel simply ridiculous logging failure after failure on my commuter rail blog with no meaningful results. I mean, I'm not writing about the problems because I like to whine; I want something to be DONE about them!
Does anyone know where I should go to get information on either the appropriate federal officials to contact, or on an organization that might like to take on the MBTA? The only one I can think of is MassPIRG - the Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group - and I'm not sure they're the right ones.
It's obvious that the T management isn't going to do anything about it. Nor is the political management. So it occurred to me that there are probably some federal laws about overcrowding and train capacity. I mean 28 people standing in a 122-person capacity coach has GOT to be a safety hazard, right?
Perhaps I should be looking into blowing the whistle to the Federal Department of Transportation. Or maybe some sort of class-action suit would be more appropriate. In any case, it's clearly necessary to move forward, because the entire MBTA bureaucracy and the state government are simply ignoring the situation. And I feel simply ridiculous logging failure after failure on my commuter rail blog with no meaningful results. I mean, I'm not writing about the problems because I like to whine; I want something to be DONE about them!
Does anyone know where I should go to get information on either the appropriate federal officials to contact, or on an organization that might like to take on the MBTA? The only one I can think of is MassPIRG - the Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group - and I'm not sure they're the right ones.