MBTA Officials Still Don't Know When Services Will Resume

Having suspended almost all MBTA services on Monday evening, General Manager Beverly Scott made no guarantees about when trains and trolleys will function again during a press conference Tuesday morning.

In her estimation, record-setting snowfall and icy conditions have left MBTA vehicles and tracks less than 100 percent safe for customers.

“We are running an extremely aged system that is getting a pounding every single day,” Scott told reporters.

“For anyone to have any belief that a system that’s over 100 years old, that’s running on these Red and Orange Lines that are much over capacity, to think that it’s going to have the resilience to wind up rebounding and flying like an eagle, that’s the absolutely the epitome of...I’m not going to say foolish...”

According to CBS Boston, officials will convene Tuesday afternoon to plan the MBTA’s next steps.

Also during the conference, Scott flatly dismissed a reporter’s question regarding her possible resignation, and emphasized that she’s yet to have any person-to-person discussion with Gov. Charlie Baker, who has been extremely critical of her agency’s response to this truly absurd winter of 2015.

“I can only say that everybody is frustrated,” she said. “I have had no conversation with the governor throughout the three weeks of what has been going on.”

Scott credited MBTA workers for laboring as much as “three weeks, around the clock” trying to bring services back to the status quo.

”They are absolutely poetry in motion,” she said. ”They are giving it all they have.”