WASHINGTON (AP) — A light dusting of snow that caused commuter chaos in the nation's capital served as an ominous prelude to the massive blizzard bearing down on the eastern United States on Thursday.
Less than an inch of snow fell Wednesday night in the District of Columbia, Maryland and northern Virginia, but that was enough for roads to immediately freeze over. Hundreds of accidents left drivers stuck for hours in icy gridlock after efforts to lay salt ahead of the dusting proved ineffective.
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 on the side of brutal," Joe Aiello, the chairman of the Fiscal and Management Control Board said Wednesday, anticipating that third parties – such as cities and developers along the route – would have limited ability to contribute to the project. "This has to be a bare-minimum system in order to get to a point financially where we're making a minimum ask to third parties because the state's capped."
