MBTA - NewBostonPost (Page 4)

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

T’s late-night service backed at hearing over canceling it

BOSTON – A small crowd that gathered Tuesday evening to weigh in on the potential elimination of the MBTA's late-night weekend transit service spoke nearly unanimously in favor of saving the costly option. Kenzie Bok, who said she is a 26-year-old lifelong resident of Boston's Bay Village,

Massachusetts

T offers incentives to white-collar workers to cut deficit

BOSTON – The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority is reportedly offering retirement incentives to hundreds of administrative employees to shave $30 million to $36 million from the projected deficit in fiscal 2017. The program would not offer early retirement, but would rather provide an incentive as about 1,000 of the roughly

boston

Group prohibited from placing controversial ads on Boston transit won’t get day in Court

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a pro-Israel group that wants to put ads on Boston-area mass transit that authorities rejected as inflammatory. The justices on Monday let stand court rulings that upheld rejection of the ads by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. The agency said

boston

MBTA considers complete replacement of Green Line fleet

BOSTON — MBTA staff is considering a complete replacement of the Green Line fleet in the next decade or so, a roughly $1 billion procurement that generated some words of caution from the T's control board on Monday. "Right now I think staff's recommendation for the

Massachusetts

As 2015 fades out, here are the Bay State’s most memorable moments

BOSTON – Plenty of Massachusetts news was fit to print in 2015. Here's our take on the 10 biggest Bay State stories of the year, in chronological order:

Massachusetts

The Year 2015 and the ‘Peril of Hope’

"It is right there Betwixt and between The orchard bare And the orchard green" — Robert Frost from "Peril of Hope" With an eerie prescience, the January 9 front page print edition of The Boston Globe captured perfectly the mixture of fear and anticipation associated with the

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