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MBTA exploring options after canceling late-night service

BOSTON — After scrapping extended-hours service on weekends, the MBTA control board on Wednesday directed staff to seek measures for improving transit service for racial minorities and low-income riders. Those measures, posed as mitigation for the late-night service elimination after action by federal regulators, could feature greater frequency on early morning

boston

Transpo plan devotes most capital $$$ to two areas

BOSTON — The state's transportation department would devote 80 percent of its more than $14.3 billion capital dollars to system improvement and modernization with roughly equal investments in transit and rail as would be spent on roads and bridges, under a plan presented Wednesday. "It's

Massachusetts

T reduces $242M deficit heading into fiscal 2017

The MBTA announced Monday it has reduced its projected deficit for fiscal 2017 by 45 percent, a $104 million reduction in the anticipated budget hole. The transit agency said reduced operating expenses accounts for 75 percent of the reduction while increased revenues in real estate and advertising makes up the

boston

MBTA fare pass increases limited to once every two years, Pollack says

While Transportation Secretary Stephanie Pollack sees a distinction between MBTA fares and the monthly passes purchased by regular users, she has no plans to raise pass costs more frequently than fares are allowed to increase. A 2013 state law limits fare increases on the T to no more than once

boston

Officials suggest major changes in store for Green Line project

BOSTON — Cost-cutting on the over-budget Green Line Extension project should be "on the side of brutal" and stakeholders "need to wrap their arms around that reality," the chairman of the MBTA's control board said Wednesday. "The cutbacks of scope really need to be

Massachusetts

DeLeo hopeful state won’t ‘completely abandon’ GLX project

STATE HOUSE — Though MBTA officials refuse to take the option of shutting down the Green Line extension project off the table, House Speaker Robert DeLeo on Tuesday said he didn't think the state could "completely abandon" the 4.7-mile trolley project, even if that requires cutting

MBTA

Taking taxpayers on a runaway ride

The image of a driverless runaway train provides the perfect visual metaphor for the endless travails of the MBTA, especially following the snowbound debacle of last winter. But the runaway train is not just a metaphor or a figure of speech. It actually happened.

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MBTA ending GLX contracts, plans to find new project manager

The MBTA has notified several firms working on the over-budget Green Line Extension project that it is acting to end their current contracts, and the agency plans to install a new project manager as part of a restructuring of the project management team. The move comes after the MassDOT Board