12 days to Oct 13 Debate / MBTA / Which Medford Mayoral Candidate will address MBTA? DEBATE October 13, 2021 7 PM

 

Fri, Oct 1 at 12:32 PM

Question: for  Medford.debate.2021@gmail.com

To Mayor Lungo-Koehn and John Falco:

If elected Mayor, how will Breanna Lungo Koehn or John Falco deal with the misconduct of MBTA drivers as they pick up Medford riders?

It's a simple question laced with the fact that ex Mayor McGlynn's brother-in-law, the late Jonathan R. Davis (married to Bernadette McGlynn, sister of Mike and Jack McGlynn, 21 years at the MBTA)

and lobbyist Jack McGlynn had deep involvement with the MBTA, as did embattled city clerk Adam Hurtubise, currently under investigation by my media outlet,

Medford Information Central dot com. 

In February of 2020 a crazed bus driver took off from Marshalls at the Medford Meadow Glen Mall at a high rate of speed, ignoring a potential patron (me) and zipping off.   I flagged her down.  She was outraged.

I asked for her Badge # and she flipped out.  Abusive, out-of-control  It's all documented.   See photo of abandoned bus on Locust St. 

How immature and unprofessional.

I want to commend the Medford Police Department's Matt Jones and the officer with him for being voices of reason in a bad situation.  It was freezing cold and elder patrons, like myself, were

subjected to the whims of a madwoman.   Elders started departing from the bus. I stayed to talk to the police about the lunacy.  I have filed public records requests, was subjected to defamation by the MBTA aattorney designed to belittle me and impeach this excellent reporter to members of the Secretary of State's office,   As stated, by some equally nutty attorney for the MBTA, guess it's CBO over there, craziness by osmosis.

Same as at Medford City Hall.

That's my question for consideration with your upcoming debate.

Now some facts to consider along with my question:

MBTA has NO OVERSIGHT on October 1, 2021  

“We acted quickly because we understand the importance of oversight for the MBTA. There is no oversight right now,” Kane said, adding that the Massachusetts Department of Transportation has not discussed MBTA matters in any meetings this summer. The Fiscal and Management Control Board, which Baker created in 2015 as a watchdog for the organization, lapsed at the end of June.

The city will hold a mayoral debate ahead of the general election Nov. 2. The debate will take place Wednesday, Oct. 13 at 7 p.m. at the Chevalier Theatre.

Voters are invited to submit questions to medford.debate.2021@gmail.com. Only questions that are issues-oriented and directed at both candidates will be accepted.

The deadline to submit questions is Wednesday, Oct. 6 at 5 p.m.

The Boston Globe's Travis Andersen, former Medford Transcript reporter, and the Boston Herald have almost the exact same headlines today after

a month of sad and tragic news at the MBTA as far as patrons and drivers go

BOSTON GLOBE   Advocates Call For Transit Improvements in wake of MBTA issues

BOSTON HERALD 

Advocates call on Beacon Hill to make MBTA safer 

I've been telling my readers this for years now....when a crazy rock and roller is the sanest person in the equation (why hasn't Madame Knight, VP of the City Council had his criminal hearing yet? During an election cycle?), you're all culpable...in my humble opinion.

Look at the Diary of Incidents in other news outlets, don't take just my word for it

 

the letter has a lengthy list found by putting MBTA in Google News Search. Try it out, long, lengthy and hideous.

‘Chaos': After MBTA Escalator Malfunction, Couple Recalls Similar Failure in 2011

NBC10 Boston13 hours ago