“Now there are clear leadership structures internally where we'll know if something goes wrong, who was responsible for those challenges,”

We answer the basic questions about the report with insights shared by Stacy Thompson of the advocacy group LivableStreets and Boston Globe transportation reporter Taylor Dolven during a conversation with WBUR's Radio Boston.

“In any administration, there’s always the first secretary to go. So this just happens to be Gina Fiandaca,”

“This job,” Thompson said, “is less about ribbon cuttings and more about operations.”

"But we didn't really see Gina out front a lot," she said. "It's hard to exactly name what she was or was not doing."

“He walked into the middle of a pandemic which turned into an abject safety crisis under an administration that wasn’t willing to give him the resources he needed,”

Hear what LivableStreets Alliance Executive Director Stacy Thompson, and others, had to say on the MBTA's chief safety officer resigning.

“We need to charge for parking, and we need to limit the number of cars households can have. That’s the way to do it and that doesn’t make people happy. But that’s the most effective way,”