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 and the MBTA Fiscal and Management Control Board met publicly and privately on Wednesday to consider options to salvage the project, the cost for which has ballooned by about 50 percent, or $1 billion, higher than budgeted.
STATE HOUSE — More than a year after the Legislature passed a domestic violence prevention law, more than three-quarters of the new law's provisions have been fully implemented, according to a new report.
The Governor's Council to Address Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence — reconstituted earlier this year by Gov. Charlie Baker and chaired by Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito — released an assessment of the law's implementation on Wednesday.
