“…’Today’s investments are a direct response to years of deferred maintenance and staffing shortages—conditions that worsened under an austerity-driven approach extending from 2016 to 2022,” the MBTA Advisory Board wrote in its endorsement of the budget proposal.
“Such investments have paid off,” the group declared, recapping the elimination of subway slow zones, more frequent trips in the urban core, and an ongoing project to upgrade signal systems….”
By Chris Lisinski | 6/10/26