Transit

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 […]

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Cars are back across America — but communities with richer residents are being spared much of the pollution and traffic violence.

We expected to have news of the Senate's transit bailout, but Mitch McConnell punted it to next week. So here's all the other news.

The pandemic provides the perfect opportunity to fix the cumbersome rules of the Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North.

Doomsday, meet Election Day.

A new ballot question initiative in Maryland aims to give Baltimore voters a say in the creation of a city-specific transit agency — which could be a crucial tool in the fight for transportation equity in Charm City, advocates argue. For nearly half a century, Baltimore has been one of the largest cities in America lacking a regional transit authority. Most if, not all, of the city’s public transit is administered by a sole governing body, the Maryland Transit Administration (MTA). The MTA oversees the State’s network of buses, subway, commuter trains, and light rail.

And the LA Times drops more misinformation to back up SoCal lawmakers' anti-HSR money grab

The COVID pandemic has forced AC Transit and Santa Clara VTA to experiment with running transit without charging fares