Petition to Remove Dan Grabauskas as Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority General Manager
- by: Douglas Mesner
- recipient: Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority General Manager Dan Grabauskas
Days after Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) General Manager Dan Grabauskas announces the agency's $160 million deficit, it is also revealed that MBTA payroll had reached exorbitant highs during the previous year ( http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/02/03/mbtas_payroll_jumps_as_agency_struggles/). Amid constant threats of further raising the subway fares, the MBTA reports record ridership for the year of 2008 (http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/01/31/mbta_set_record_for_ridership_in_2008/). With a 4.3 percent increase in paid fares, and a consistant operational fee, one wonders how such apparently gross mismanagement could be allowed to pitch the MBTA into such enormous debt, and why, with MBTA employees being paid such disproportionately high salaries, why are the subways so ridiculously unreliable. Boston public transportation has become famously incompetent in the eyes of its locals who daily suffer from MBTA incompetence. The Boston Herald reports, "To compensate for the sky-high debt, the T has hiked parking by $2 and removed seats from some cars on the Red Line to cram in additional paying passengers." (http://news.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/2009_02_03_T_workers_ride_the_money_train:_Many_pulling_six_figures_despite_budget_crunch/srvc=home&position=also) It's time we stopped allowing the MBTA to be used as a cash cow for its employees. It's time we demanded efficient transportation. It's time for Dan Grabauskas to resign as General Manager of the MBTA. Please sign this petition to convey your disapproval of Dan Grabauskas's performance as General Manager, and encourage his immediate resignation as such
Under your management, the MBTA has reached an enormous deficit, the transportation schedule has proven wildly unreliable, and your apparent lack of oversight or unwillingness to reign-in absurdly disproportionate salaries and overtime pay abuses has made the MBTA a subject of public mockery. You have expressed no other solution other than to burden we, the MBTA commuters, with further fare increases which never seem to improve the abyssmally low quality of service. We, riders of the MBTA, have lost faith in your ability to manage the agency and ask for your immediate resignation.
