Flashes of Panic

There’s an article in today’s Globe explaining that the T is suffering from rampant driver absenteeism.

[MBTA General Manager] Grabauskas also said the absenteeism forces the authority to drop scheduled train or trolley runs, which cost “us the good will of our customers who rely on our published service schedules, which in turn costs us lost revenue at a time when we can least afford it.”

That sounds awfully familiar. (And why has nobody made the obvious “absen-T” pun?) I suppose it also explains why, despite having mailed On-Time Service Guarantee cards over a month ago, we’ve heard nothing back from the MBTA. And that our traffic problems have less to do with inadequate public transportation than they do with shoddy management of the public transportation we have.