Federal officials suggested considering federal takeover of South Station and other East Coast stations, citing concerns about cleanliness, crime, safety, and security for workers and passengers. Officials pointed to Union Station in Washington, D.C., as a precedent for federal management. A poll of 1,080 respondents found 64% opposed and 33% in favor of federal control. Regular commuters disputed claims of crime and cleanliness problems, noting ongoing renovations and everyday observations of safe conditions. Local leadership raised legal doubts about the authority to transfer South Station from local to federal control.
"Here in South Boston, we need to address the cleanliness, the crime, the safety, and security of the station for the rail workers, for the passengers, because the people of Boston deserve that," Bradbury said, according to The Boston Globe. "All the people up and down the Northeast corridor and Americans who travel on these trains, they need and deserve beautiful rail facilities."
Several readers who use South Station regularly to commute refuted Bradbury's claims that the station - which is managed by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) - has crime and cleanliness issues. "I use South Station every day and don't see crime or cleanliness issues. The station is going through renovations which make it appear that way, but the point is that change is already underway, " Andrew from Marshfield said.
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