Much of today’s investment is a direct response to years of deferred maintenance and staffing shortages—conditions that worsened under the austerity-driven approach of the T’s control board.
Brian Kane
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Always broke: The MBTA’s long-running theme
History offers important lessons to learn, or at least not repeat, as the T approaches yet another budget year with a projected deficit looming.
Posted inOpinion
Commuter rail’s ridership recovery plan is working
MBTA commuter rail attracts back riders the old-fashioned way, with frequency and reliability.
Posted inOpinion
Digging into safety oversight options for MBTA
WITH HIGH-PROFILE MISHAPS and equipment failures in recent months, the MBTA is under unprecedented scrutiny for its recent safety record. The Federal Transit Administration’s Safety Management Inspection (SMI) report released […]
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Merging MBTA with DOT is a bad idea
THE JOINT COMMITTEE on Transportation seems to want to have its proverbial cake and eat it too. At its recent oversight hearing, House Committee Co-Chairman William Strauss suggested that the […]
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Let the MBTA plan its own future
LAST JUNE, at its last meeting, a bold vision for the future MBTA was laid out by the MBTA’s Fiscal and Management Control Board (FMCB). The plan entitled “FMCB Productivity […]