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BOSTON – Pressing ahead with the Green Line Extension project may require fresh bonding authority from the state Legislature next year to help cover the costs, Transportation Secretary Stephanie Pollack told lawmakers Wednesday. "As I've said repeatedly the option of halting the project remains on the table until
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BOSTON – The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's bus maintenance costs run about twice as high as the Chicago Transit Authority and the T's per-vehicle-hour maintenance spending is almost twice as high as the average for the state's regional transit authorities, according to data presented Monday.
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BOSTON – T riders may be called on to help ease a growing budget shortfall at the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. Increasing fares is one of several options the agency's fiscal management control board is considering as it comes up with a plan to tackle a gap projected to
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OCT. 5, 2015 — The White House has pulled the plug on former MBTA chief Beverly Scott's nomination to serve on a national transportation board. Scott resigned as general manager of the MBTA last winter, announcing her plans to step down as the transit authority was coping with snow
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STATE HOUSE — As state transportation officials grapple with a yawning projected deficits and spotty performance at the MBTA, they confronted a philosophical disagreement on Wednesday from Rep. William Straus, the House's pointman on transportation. A report of the MBTA's Fiscal and Management Control Board identified a
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Gov. Charlie Baker could use his temporary power to privatize bus maintenance at the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority and take other steps to save as much as $122 million a year, according to the Pioneer Institute, whose advocacy for such measures has drawn the ire of public unions and did
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DORCHESTER — Showing off new third rails that will run along the Red Line and touting a new approach to major snowstorms, Gov. Charlie Baker and transit officials spent part of the first day of fall telling reporters they will be ready for winter. Ahead of next winter the MBTA plans
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BOSTON — Concerned that the Baker administration's effort to privatize some MBTA services could cost workers their jobs, union members gathered in protest on Wednesday, vowing to continue to call attention to the issue. Wearing matching orange shirts, nearly 80 members of Boston Carmen's Union 589 turned
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