MBTA Chooses Neither Scenario; MAPC Issues Warning
The official public comment period on the proposed fare hikes and service cuts ended last night, but the Metropolitan Area Planning Council still has a point to make.
After months of debate over the MBTA's proposed Scenario 1 and Scenario 2 for cutting services and raising fares to meet their projected $161 million budget deficit, the period of public comment ended last night at the MBTA's final public hearing, held at a senior center in Brighton. In a Boston Globe article on the meeting, MBTA GM Jonathan Davis explained how they were going to move forward. According to Davis and the Globe, "neither of the two previously released scenarios will be selected by the agency’s board," but, "Instead, the committee that drafted those two proposals will take testimony from all of the hearings’ speakers and feedback from more than 5,600 e-mails and draft new recommendations." The MBTA board's monthly meeting …
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Clark Frazier
1:32 pm on Tuesday, March 13, 2012
The MBTA should be placed in receivership. The current management seems incapable of satisfying the demand for transit service, redeploying unproductive employees or developing sound policies for allocation of service. The entire transportation system should be restructured to collect fees from users, like fares, tolls, mileage taxes and parking taxes, with cross subsidies as required to balance … more ›