Brian Shortsleeve, a Marine Corps veteran and former MBTA leader, highlights his record of cutting costs, restoring a balanced budget, and outlines a campaign focused on affordability, economic growth, and government accountability in Massachusetts.
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority can’t claim immunity from a lawsuit by a bus rider who says he suffered permanent brain…
What do Bay Staters think of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority? They don't like it.…
Should it be fare-free to ride the MBTA? Massachusetts attorney general and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Maura Healey's campaign team…
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority plans to use some of its commuter rail trains to create walk-up coronavirus vaccination stations in…
The Massachusetts Department of Transportation on Thursday morning reduced the speed limit to 40 miles per hour on parts of the Massachusetts…
A new committee is studying why so many people are dying on Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority tracks. Twenty people were struck and…
BOSTON — A new Pioneer Institute study claims that the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority has dramatically underestimated its retirement pension obligations, which the…
BOSTON (AP) — A contract negotiated with the region's largest transit union will save the cash-strapped Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority…
BOSTON — As the MBTA looks to cut costs and improve service, a state transportation official on Monday said the T could save…
BOSTON – Fare hikes and other actions proposed for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority will be the focus of 10 public meetings set…
BOSTON – Opening its doors for the first time to the public Monday afternoon, the rebuilt Government Center subway station allows access by…
BOSTON – Despite its well-documented troubles, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority ranks as the nation's third-best mass transit system,…
BOSTON – Hoverboards won't be allowed on subways, buses, trains or trolleys, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority declared Tuesday, citing safety…
A complaint filed Tuesday calls on federal transportation officials to require implementation of an alternative to the late-night service scrapped by…
BOSTON — The MBTA is preparing to more than double its spending on capital projects over the next five years, aiming to spend…
BOSTON — The bustling Red Line, the MBTA's busiest subway line, could transport an additional 10,000 passengers an hour and…
Pretty much everything that's wrong with government is encapsulated in the recent announcement of what the New York Times described…
After weeks of vocal appeals to Gov. Charlie Baker, the union representing laid-off MBTA janitors has seized on a new target…
On Saturday a week ago, some friends and I went to the Zac Brown Band concert at Fenway Park. My friends suggested…
STATE HOUSE — MBTA janitors and their supporters protested planned layoffs Thursday, occupying the lobby and hallway outside Gov. Charlie Baker's…
STATE HOUSE — MBTA inventory workers giving a tour around the central warehouse earlier this summer paused for a moment, moving to the…
BOSTON — The Baker administration, which struggled to balance the state's books in fiscal 2016, plans to use borrowed dollars for…
BOSTON — Commuter rail riders can expect some weekend closures starting next spring as the MBTA embarks on a $459 million effort to…
BOSTON — The MBTA faces an additional financial hurdle this year as projected sales tax revenue for the transit agency has dropped about…
STATE HOUSE — Presenting a broad reform agenda for the second year of the MBTA's Fiscal and Management Control Board'…
STATE HOUSE — Dozens of members of Congress have asked U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew for an investigation into the Chinese railcar…
BEACHWOOD, OHIO — A day after the wife of presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump drew fire for lifting passages of First Lady…
Around the one-year anniversary of the MBTA's Fiscal and Management Control Board, Transportation Secretary Stephanie Pollack noted the enduring…
Senators rejected Gov. Charlie Baker's amendment to a proposed new cap on MBTA fare hikes on a 30-10 vote…
STATE HOUSE — Gov. Charlie Baker wants to give the MBTA a freer hand in raising fares, sending back to the Legislature a…
BOSTON — Already struggling to close a structural budget deficit and improve service, the MBTA on Monday turned its attention to the drain…
The leader of a working group pushing for construction of a rail link connecting North and South stations is urging action to…
BOSTON — Improvements at the MBTA are moving the transit system "in the right direction," Gov. Charlie Baker said Thursday, but…
Describing a dysfunctional MBTA inventory system that does not meet industry standards, transit authority officials and a consultant made the case Monday…
BOSTON – Michael Mulhern, the head of the MBTA Retirement Fund, is resigning after 10 years in that post, asserting that the fund…
