When I lived in Boston I used the subway a lot and though it was ok. What makes you say it's broken? Has it gotten worse recently?

Since Fall of 2022, there's been a negative spiral within the MBTA. Primarily due to poor maintenance leading to: service cuts, full shutdown of certain lines, and the highest percentage of slow zones in recent history.

Here's a graph of slow zones:

https://old.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/11qtx82/red_line_sl...

They are returning a good chunk of the system back to regular service this Summer, though.

Edit: the slow zones might not be clear on that graph, but at one point the Red Line end-to-end was around 1-1.5 hours slower. Especially bad for commuters.

TransitMatters has a nice graph of the problem: https://dashboard.transitmatters.org/slowzones?startDate=202...

the subway only runs from 5:30 to 1am (so good luck getting to the airport for a morning flight). also it's been on fire and slow and often down for maintenance

Red line and blue line don’t connect. You need to take a bus to “connect” them

Or the green line, or the orange line...

Easier to do if you stop having to maintain tons of roadway and can move that money into mass transit.