I foresee a "oh we can't replace the plastic one it with wood now because that w...

I foresee a "oh we can't replace the plastic one it with wood now because that would be a new material and we don't have data to prove it conforms with some rule we made up so the only solution is to pay some engineering firm who knows people on beacon hill a ton of money to say that pine is fine" situation before they go back to wood.

And as bad as the MBTA is... Keolis is worse (arguably).