MBTA Radio

[darxus]

Now you get to hear them making noise constantly, with the bonus of advertisements.

http://www.mbta.com/about_the_mbta/news_events/?id=13647&month=&year

"in case you were wondering how riding the T could be made less tolerable"

There is a feedback form, please use it: http://www.mbta.com/riding_the_t/feedback/

I just did:

Please cancel this T-Radio thing. There is enough noise, and this will only make me more miserable when I'm around it, and less likely to take public transportation.

Comments

I haven't heard it yet...

[cathijosephine.livejournal.com]

I think that if the MBTA can make money by selling ads on this thing I'm all for it. Public transportation is expensive, and I think the T should continue to seek other incomes.

I can just hide behind my awesome $15 mp3 headphones.

Re: I haven't heard it yet...

[xuth.livejournal.com]

Well, that would be good if they could but per this globe article Dan Grabauskas "does not know how much profit, if any, the MBTA would reap in the deal".

Re: I haven't heard it yet...

[xuth.livejournal.com]

Oh, and currently less than 1% of the MBTA is financed with advertising (look here for a simple funding breakdown). Note that state taxes provide ~55% of the income and local taxes provide ~10%. Another interesting tidbit is that 17% of the money spent was interest and 8% was principal payments on loans.

Re: I haven't heard it yet...

[xuth.livejournal.com]

uggg... the T has $8.1 Billion in debt. $2.9B of that was passed to the MBTA from the state in 2007. This is ostensibly debt from the Big Dig.