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

[beowabbit]

Here’s what I sent them a few days ago:

I am fortunate enough not to have been in any of the stations where the T-Radio pilot program is operating [alas, no longer true], but I think it's a very bad idea, and I do not want more noise in T stations distracting me from my commute or from what I'm listening to (whether live musicians, music via headphones, or a conversation with my travelling companions) or what I'm reading. Honestly, I bought the house I did specifically so I could take the T to work, but if the stations I regularly travel through end up having canned music and talk (other than transit-related announcements) pumped into them, I may spend the $700 bucks annually for parking at work and start clogging up the roads and pumping
hydrocarbons into the air again. I really, really hope this project is dropped.

Sincerely,

Jay Sekora