MBTA riders long wanted the agency to catch up with its peers and provide a way to pay fares that didn’t involve CharlieCards or vending machines. After the first year, data show many commuters are embracing the new option.
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Posted inPolitics
Wu plans to press fare issue in July 1 system-wide canvass
LEANING INTO THE political potential of MBTA rider outrage, Boston City Councilor Michelle Wu plans to organize volunteers to canvass straphangers on July 1, the day a roughly 6 percent […]
Posted inTransportation
Isolation problem: T fares rising faster than cost of driving
IN NOVEMBER 1990, Bill Weld won his first election as governor, NBC aired the first full season of Seinfeld, and someone driving from Melrose to catch a Bruins game could […]
Posted inTransportation
T notes: South Shore customers want later trains
MBTA ADVISORY BOARD Executive Director Paul Regan thought he had given the MBTA everything needed to change up schedules of commuter rail trains to make them useful to South Shore […]
Posted inTransportation
T notes: Blue Line an outlier on ridership
WHILE WEEKDAY RIDERSHIP has generally dropped on MBTA subway and bus routes, boardings on the Blue Line have been on an upswing, according to data presented by the T’s research […]
Posted inTransportation
T eyes hikes for fares, parking fees
MBTA OFFICIALS CRACKED open the door to a fare hike and increases in parking fees by the beginning of next year as the cash-strapped agency, despite cuts and privatization efforts, […]
Posted inThe Download, Transportation
Riders confess to fare evasion
How does the MBTA figure out how many commuter rail riders aren’t paying their fares? It asks them. A survey of 1,655 commuter rail riders at the beginning of March […]
Posted inThe Download, Transportation
Hail to the T’s Control Board
The five members of the MBTA’s Fiscal Management and Control Board are the most intriguing people in state government right now. They work long hours for no pay and take […]
Posted inState House News Service, The Download, Transportation
A fare warning
Is the MBTA’s plan to raise fares running into signal problems? The agency, now under full control of Gov. Charlie Baker through the the Fiscal and Management and Control Board […]