In response to the problems, the MBTA has already instituted a number of Web site and database upgrades and promised to have an employee monitoring the site throughout the duration of future storms.

However, making sure these changes do the job will not be the responsibility of the site's now former webmaster, who was not named in the Globe story, as he has been reassigned to another position within the MBTA.

This isn't the first time that Boston's transit system, known locally at "the T," has found itself in the headlines over technology-related matters.

In August 2008, to stop three MIT students from revealing flaws in its Charlie Card ticketing system at a Defcon event. Backed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, in court. 

An accident caused by a texting train operator and legislative action over the practice of texting while operating a vehicle.