- What's your biggest worry right now, Chris?

People can't get to work, people can't get to hospital or deliver a certain health expertise?

We're dealing, of course, with a big workforce that does a lot of different things.

- We've got this region in Greater Boston that really built up around transit service and you've got hundreds of thousands of people who don't own automobiles, either by choice or because they're not able to afford one, whose daily life depends on that transit system working for them.

And the cuts that are going in place take us from a system that's one of the five or six busiest in the country to a system that's going to look more like a Cleveland or a Milwaukee, in terms of the frequency of the transit service.

What we risk here is a death spiral where there's less service, which means less ridership, which means less revenue to fund service and even more service cuts, and that is not what we want for Greater Boston.

We appreciate that today the ridership is lower, that many white collar workers that have the flexibility to work from home are no longer riding the system.

But none of us want that for the future of Greater Boston and there's a risk that when white collar workers return at some point this year, whether that's this summer or the fall, they're gonna return to an MBTA system that looks dramatically different than the one that they left in March of 2020.