by amira177 | Aug 18, 2021 | News
It is not clear what projects will be on the federal infrastructure bill, which is one of the largest federal investment in public transit. However, Brian Kane is optimistic that the proposed projects have potential transformative impact to the modes of service that...
by BK | May 25, 2022 | Uncategorized
The MBTA Advisory Board has full confidence in Steve Poftak as MBTA General Manager. His nearly 4-year combined tenure as Acting General Manager and General Manager has brought much needed stability to the MBTA. The structural deficit experienced by the MBTA for the...
by BK | May 9, 2022 | Uncategorized
Local leaders discuss Everett’s MBTA and transportation needs. EVERETT, MASSACHUSETTS: Thomas P. Koch, Mayor of the City of Quincy, Massachusetts today visited the City of Everett, Massachusetts’s Mayor Carlo DeMaria, Jr. at Everett City Hall. Mayor Koch is...
by BK | Mar 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
Meets local elected officials at Ashland Train Station Pat Moynihan, former Transportation Secretary; Frank Tramontozzi, designee for Quincy; Brian Kane, Executive Director; Mayor Tom Koch, Chairman; Rob Scherer, Select Board and MBTA representative ; Joseph Magnani...
by amira177 | Feb 14, 2022 | News
A new MBTA bus maintenance facility in Quincy will be the first in the transit system to house an electric-battery-powered, zero-emissions vehicle fleet. The project at 599 Burgin Parkway is one officials touted on Monday as a product of $2.2 billion in federal...
by amira177 | Feb 14, 2022 | News
LAST JUNE, at its last meeting, a bold vision for the future MBTA was laid out by the MBTA’s Fiscal and Management Control Board (FMCB). The plan entitled “FMCB Productivity Report” leverages infrastructure investments to create a safer, more efficient, more modern,...
by amira177 | Feb 14, 2022 | News
Riders of the 23, 28, and 29 buses, which run through Mattapan, Dorchester, and Roxbury, will not be charged any fares starting in March, a first step, Mayor Michelle Wu hopes, toward making the T free. After a two-month delay to work out the details, Boston and the...
by amira177 | Feb 14, 2022 | News
March 25 marked the two-month milestone of the MBTA’s Silver Line Extension Alternatives Analysis Study. According to a statement from the T on Jan. 25, the study explores expanding the Silver Line to Everett with further extension to Somerville, Sullivan and Kendall...
by amira177 | Dec 2, 2021 | News
Read more at Transit advocates hope stark report on MBTA finances delivers a wake-up call – The Boston Globe
by amira177 | Dec 2, 2021 | News
Two days after a Boston University professor fell to his death on a dilapidated staircase near the JFK/UMass MBTA Station in mid-September, the agency’s top official worried something similar could happen again. In an e-mail to the agency’s chief engineer, MBTA...
by amira177 | Dec 2, 2021 | News
On her first full day as mayor, Wu filed an appropriation order with the Boston City Council to allocate $8 million in federal funding to expand the city’s fare-free bus program. That appropriation would fund free fares for two years on three lines: the 23, the...
