BOSTON — The MBTA is preparing to more than double its spending on capital projects over the next five years, aiming to spend $6.5 billion to chip away at its state of good repair backlog and expand the transit system over the next five years.
Forecasting that the agency will spend between $850 and $950 million this fiscal year, T officials said Monday they hope to ramp up capital spending to an annual average of $1.3 billion, an amount they said would allow them to finally get ahead of system's upkeep.
BOSTON — As Boston embarks on a collaboration with an international non-profit to put autonomous vehicles on city streets, Mayor Marty Walsh said he still has some questions about the endeavor – and its legality is questionable.
"It's so early in the process. We still have a long way to go before this is fully vetted," Walsh told reporters Wednesday when asked why he would pursue self-driving cars in a city with such notoriously bad human drivers.
