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Posted 04 September 2015 - 09:42 PM

Boston, MA Herald, 8/31/15:

 


MBTA report pegs maintenance backlog at $7.3B

 

A new MBTA study of the troubled rail system’s maintenance backlog sees a spike in cost estimates by an additional $600 million to $7.3 billion — and outlines a funding scenario that would eliminate the backlog in 25 years.

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Posted 04 September 2015 - 09:50 PM

Boston, MA Herald, 9/1/15:

 


Editorial: MBTA troubles grow

 

And the bad news just keeps on a-comin’.

 

Yesterday the MBTA Fiscal Management Control Board, established in the wake of the winter transportation meltdown, reported an increase in the system’s maintenance backlog estimated in February at $6.7 billion to a current $7.3 billion. There is indeed a point beyond which horrifying is simply horrifying and numbers become nearly incomprehensible.

 

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Posted 21 December 2015 - 12:31 PM

Progressive Railroading, 12/21/15:

MBTA should put the brakes on expansions, Harvard fellow says


A research fellow at Harvard University has called for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) to put its expansion projects on hold as the agency works through its financial difficulties.

In a report released last week, Senior Fellow Charles Chieppo noted that the agency's expenses are expected to outpace revenue growth in the coming years. Without reform, MBTA's financial issues will become worse, according to the report.


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