MBTA officials will soon have to decide how to structure the contract with the outside firm that will convert its suburban train system to “regional rail,” a step that has ramifications for the project’s cost.
State officials are racing to lock in federal funding amid concerns that the incoming Republican administration may try to punish the heavily Democratic Bay State — but stakeholders still can’t agree on aspects of the design.
MBTA budget-writers have warned the agency could run out of cash in the first quarter of fiscal 2026 amid a roughly $700 million gap, but the agency’s leader is feeling “optimism” about the prospects of addressing the shortfall.
The speed restrictions that have plagued the MBTA for years should be gone by next month, and agency leaders will then turn their attention toward similarly important work on signals and station improvements – work that will still require small shutdowns.
The MBTA Advisory Board, an independent group that represents cities and towns that help fund the T, is calling on Beacon Hill to make debt relief a central part of the next MBTA financial rescue plan.
MBTA officials say fare collection efforts are being stepped up on the commuter rail system, but the loss of revenue remains a problem, with a quarter of fares not being collected on trains operating out of South Station.
The House budget chief wants to direct $1 billion in surplus income surtax funds towards transportation investments, mainly MBTA capital investments, he told business leaders at an event in Boston.
New data seems to suggest that the MBTA’s year-long campaign of subway maintenance shutdowns has worked.
A veteran MBTA leader will soon end his tenure chairing the agency’s board, and a former co-chair of the Legislature’s Transportation Committee will step into the role at a pivotal point.
A subway train that derailed near Boston earlier this month had entered a 10 mph zone traveling at 36 mph, according to an initial report from the National Transportation Safety Board released Wednesday.
Gov. Maura Healey said the Tuesday afternoon derailment on the Green Line is “not attributable to the rail or the track,” and suggested that federal investigators are instead focusing on other factors including the operator as a potential root cause.
Does it seem like your T ride is improving? It actually might be. Statistics show the transit agency is turning a corner on subway slow zones, speeds on the Blue and Orange Lines and the largest workforce in years that resulting in better service.
Congestion pricing was one of the most contentious issues in Swedish politics for years, as one transportation official from the Scandinavian country recently recalled. And then something unexpected happened: people got used to it.
“We’re at the fiscal cliff,” the agency’s top budget official warned. That would mean the Legislature would have to pass some sort of revenue package for the T early in the year, or else the agency might be forced to start laying off workers
Plans for housing on the large parking lot next to the MBTA’s Riverside Green Line terminal have come back to life.
As Boston’s economy adapts to the post-pandemic working and living environment, Jim Rooney has been an outspoken critic of threats to the region’s economic competitiveness, from problems with the T to office vacancies.
Trains powered by electricity rather than diesel fuel are not scheduled to begin rolling on the Fairmount Line for years, but public officials are so excited about the now-concrete plans for more frequent service with less pollution that they gathered in the hot sun Tuesday morning to celebrate an achievement that likely won’t be attained until 2028.
It may come as a surprise to hear, but we’ve recently turned some big corners in fixing some very real problems. Now we need a vision for the future.
Redevelopment of the MBTA’s Alewife station and garage could require the complete closure of the 2,733-space parking facility for 28 months, MBTA officials said in presenting options for a public-private partnership to developers this week.
MBTA General Manager Phillip Eng is beginning to make the case that the transit authority is a reliable transportation option.
