Editorial: Monday Shorts: Taxi! Published: 4/25/2021 4:16:50 PM Here are some brief thoughts on recent happenings in Franklin County and the North Quabbin region. One of the biggest roadblocks to employment in a rural county is transportation. The 101 cities and towns that make up metropolitan Boston boast subways, trains and buses, none of which we have to a practical extent around here, where cars rule. For want of a car, jobs are lost. Late-shift workers are especially vulnerable. To address this problem, the Franklin Regional Transit Authority (FRTA) announced a pilot program funded by the Metro Area Planning Council creating a bridge service to allow late-shift workers time to fix or buy a car and thus become self-sufficient, explained FRTA Assistant Administrator Michael Perreault.