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What About the Big T Questions?

March 9, 2016 By massmarrier 2 Comments

Pardon me for riding the same MBTA hobby horse again. Several recent events and trends have me back up. The gist of it is why aren't the big kids — Gov. Baker, Speaker DeLeo, or MassDOT Board Chair Stephanie Pollack — getting real about … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: charlie-baker, funding, mass-transit, massachusetts, mbta, reilly-deval-patrick-delegates

I’ll be defending the Pacheco Law at a Boston Bar Assn. forum next month

December 7, 2015 By dave-from-hvad 2 Comments

(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) Based on our blog posts earlier this year defending the scrutiny of the privatization of state services that is provided under the Pacheco Law, I've been asked to present a defense of the law at … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: developmental-disabilities, mbta, privatization

The hypocrisy of allowing alcohol ads on the MBTA

October 6, 2015 By SamTracy 2 Comments

It's looking like the MBTA, which has refused advertisements from groups that educate patients about medical marijuana, may start allowing makers of a highly addictive drug to advertise their wares on the T. From WBUR: As the MBTA looks to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: advertising, alcohol, drug advertising, drug-policy, drugs, mbta

Governor’s MBTA panel provided virtually no support for its recommendation to restrict the Pacheco Law

July 30, 2015 By dave-from-hvad 4 Comments

(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) The Governor's Special Panel to Review the MBTA earlier this year made some reasonable proposals to better manage the MBTA.  But the Panel report's recommendation to remove the MBTA from the Pacheco … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: mbta, pacheco-law, privatization

The Pioneer Institute does acrobatic logical twists re the Pacheco Law

July 13, 2015 By dave-from-hvad 34 Comments

(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) In what has been widely viewed as a setback for state employee unions in Massachusetts, state legislators last week approved a state budget for Fiscal Year 2016 that includes a provision freezing the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: developmental-disabilities, mbta, privatization

For Beacon Hill, The Right Time to Invest in MBTA is Never

March 19, 2015 By thegreenmiles 6 Comments

As WBUR's Zeninjor Enwemeka reports, a group of Massachusetts legislators rode the commuter rail this morning and got a representative ride: In an effort to better understand the challenges — and headaches — faced by public transit riders … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: mbta, transit, transportation

Fully Baked Baker Budget

March 5, 2015 By massmarrier 7 Comments

With an ostensible liberal Democratic-controlled General Court, MA remains traditionally fiscally conservative. That's fertile ground for GOP Gov. Charlie Baker to plant his no-new taxes seeds. Thus, most of his first budget proposal likely … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: baker, budget, charlie-baker, deficit, funding, mbta, taxes

Fixing the MBTA – Diving Into Some Numbers, Talking Transportation As An Investment, Transit Around The World and Finding Cash Flow

February 16, 2015 By Patrick 118 Comments

With the recent performance of the MBTA during these record snowfalls, coupled with the recently announced departure of the MBTA General Manager Beverly Scott, I took it upon myself to dig more into some of the numbers that got us here to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: massachusetts, mbta

Hey, we opened a new T station

September 3, 2014 By drikeo Leave a Comment

I think Team Blue hasn't quite made enough noise about the new T station in Assembly Square. It's fairly huge deal. The last time the state opened a new MBTA rail station it was 1987 and Mike Dukakis was the governor. It's not a coincidence … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: deval-patrick, economy, joe-curtatone, mbta, michael-dukakis, transportation

So: Nobody walks to work. Who knew?

July 25, 2014 By Trickle up 3 Comments

Thanks to the Boston Globe for proving scientifically that no one in the Bay State walks (or rides a bike) to work. Instead, according to this week's poll, we choose driving (82%) and mass transit (8%) or both (9%). News story • Poll … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: mbta, transportation

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