AP via Boston Herald, 3/31:
Boston transit system gets advice from 'peer' cities
BOSTON — Transit officials from New York City and other metropolitan areas are offering advice to the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority on how it might avoid the problems that crippled the Boston-area during winter's record-setting snowfall, including the use of outside contractors to help clear snow after storms.
Frank DePaola, interim general manager of the MBTA, briefed lawmakers Monday on the results of a so-called peer review by experts from the New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, New Jersey and Toronto transit systems.
Boston received more than 100 inches of snow during a roughly five-week period that began in late January. The snow — combined with frigid temperatures during much of that time — clogged tracks, froze electrified rails and disabled scores of locomotives and passenger cars.
DePaola told an oversight hearing of the Legislature's Transportation Committee that the MBTA received a number of tips from the other transit systems that could help during extreme weather events in the future.
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