These changes at the T get curiouser and curiouser.

Now Dan Grabauskas, who wrangled some nice parting gifts in his recent ouster, is speaking out, saying he was deposed over the issue of fare hikes, which he wants us to know he stood up to Aloisi on. 

"He wanted me to rush the fare increase process," Grabauskas said of Aloisi. "And I said I thought it was a bad idea. I'm breaking my silence because to say the MBTA staff was on its own, at my direction, is a lie."

Grabauskas further alleges:

The administration was worried that if they did not push him out, he would have questioned the need for a fare increase at a public hearing today on whether the T should boost fares by 20 percent.

Aloisi is now saying he'll wait for a top-to-bottom review of the T's books to decide on whether or not to raise fares.  he certainly does not seem to care much what the riders think one way or another, though.  At last night's "workshop" to discuss possible fare hikes, only one board member showed, and, according to the Globe,

A spokesman for Aloisi, who chairs the board, said it was not necessary for board members to be at the meeting because MBTA managers and staff would report back to them on what took place.

Tin ears and backstage shenanigans at the T are nothing new, of course, but with transportation reforms which may lessen even further the riders' input and, according to Aloisi, may even negate the need for a GM to replace Grabauskas, Aloisi is the devil we don't know.