Massachusetts Bay Transit

Goal: In this scenario the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority gets a jump on history by getting established as a region wide transit system at the turn of the century. Can you manage it in Taxachussetts?

Author's Comments: The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority is a combined transit system of commuter and light rail with boats and buses. In this scenario (I hope to make a "2nd Century" upgrade in the future) the MBTA is formed initially as a regional transit system that includes all of eastern Massachusetts, Cape Cod and Rhode Island instead of evolving from Boston's earlier Metropolitan Transit Authority. The first subway in the United States ran from Boylston St. to Park St. in Boston in 1898. While no subways are possible in this scenario, the player must build a working private commuter and local freight system that can survive the burdens placed upon it in liberal "Taxachussetts" in the late 20th century. You begin circa 1900 and get the first half of the century to pad your income for the bureaucratic assault.