Our web conversation went on longer than the one hour Radio Boston is on the air. Supporters of the T said, hey, it’s better than NOT having it.

But, frustations were best summed up with guest42290137’s smirk:

“this forum explains the MBTA in a nutshell: NO ONE IS LISTENING.”

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Welcome to the Radio Boston live webchat. We’ll run a chatroom like this every week while the show is live and on the air, Fridays from 1-2pm Eastern Time. Log on and listen in to our live stream: www.wbur.org/listen.

Today, your thoughts on the MBTA. How’s the service? How can it improve? How can the T climb out of its $8 billion debt?

The litany of woes is as long, and as old, as the MBTA itself: An $8 billion debt. Aging trains and buses. Maintenance backlogs. Fare increases. And now, the admission from MBTA general manager Daniel Grabauskas that the T has been secretly cutting tripsfrom its published schedules.

The hope, Grabauskas says, was that cutting trips would cut costs.

That hasn’t happened. The MBTA is still saddled with a debt load among the largest in the nation for a public transit system. Riders say service has been declining for years. And this is one of the few issues where everyone on Beacon Hill seems to be in agreement: the T is in trouble.

But what to do about it?

Get on board as we search for the answer to that question. And another, one of Boston’s most famous: "Should we walk, or do we have time to take the T?"

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