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A Fix for Chronic Transit Funding Shortfalls Could Be Up To the Voters This Fall

It’s become an annual rite of spring: transit agencies across Massachusetts are examining blooms of red ink in their budgets for the next fiscal year, and wondering whether state lawmakers will step in and give them the funding they need to avoid service cuts. This year, though, voters may be able to take matters into […]

Christian MilNeil

April 1, 2022

A Fix for Chronic Transit Funding Shortfalls Could Be Up To the Voters This Fall

Streetsblog Massachusetts |MBTA

New Northeast Corridor Rail Plan Would Boost MBTA Providence Line Projects

The Northeast Corridor Commission, a federally-convened partnership between the states and Amtrak, has released a new 15-year plan to upgrade tracks and stations for faster trips between Boston and Washington, DC. If all of the recommended projects from the new “Connect NEC 2035” plan were funded and built, the Commission estimates that Amtrak’s travel times […]

Christian MilNeil

July 14, 2021

Streetsblog Massachusetts |Legislation

Final Bond Bill Sets 20-Cent ‘Transit Access Fee’ For Uber/Lyft Rides

In 2018, there were about 50 million Uber and Lyft rides that originated in Boston and Cambridge alone, which could have contributed around $10 million in new revenue for the T had this policy been in place then.

Christian MilNeil

January 6, 2021

Streetsblog Massachusetts |Environment

Going Green Will Save Mass. Transit Millions

The switch to all-renewable electricity, which would take effect on January 1, 2021, will immediately slash the T's carbon footprint by 36 percent.

Christian MilNeil

October 6, 2020

Streetsblog Massachusetts |Equity

How Massachusetts is Reforming Fare Enforcement

In addition authorizing debt spending for hundreds of infrastructure projects across the Commonwealth, the multi-billion dollar bond package that the Massachusetts Senate passed earlier this month would also make significant reforms to how the MBTA enforces fare payments on its trains, buses, and ferries. The Commonwealth’s current fare evasion law sets large penalties for people […]

Christian MilNeil

July 28, 2020

Streetsblog Massachusetts |Equity

MBTA Takes Small Steps to Improve Fare Equity

Boston's transit overseers approved some small-but-significant changes in the agency’s fare policies at a meeting last week to improve fare equity for minority and low-income riders.

Christian MilNeil

May 27, 2020

Streetsblog Massachusetts |COVID-19

‘Essential’ Work Demands Put Areas of Color at Risk

While much of the nation is staying at home to minimize the risks of COVID-19 transmission, the essential workers who continue to deliver our basic needs are still commuting to their jobs. That puts them at risk.

Christian MilNeil

April 27, 2020

Streetsblog Massachusetts |MBTA

Feds Send $1B to Mass. Transit Agencies

Massachusetts transit agencies will get just over $1 billion in emergency funding to help sustain service through the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Federal Transit Administration (FTA). The funding comes from a $25 billion line-item for transit assistance in the “Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act,” the bill that quickly moved through Congress […]

Christian MilNeil

April 2, 2020

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