Transit Leaders Look for New Money for MBTA, RTAs
Sustaining the MBTA’s progress, according to several current and former state transit leaders, is going to require new sources of revenue, particularly with future federal funding uncertain.
New Poll: Mass. Residents Want Back-Up Plan for Funding Transpo. Projects
The survey indicated residents remain in a fiscally conservative mood, but they are open to studying other ways to pay for transportation upgrades and improvements, such as congestion pricing.
Congestion Pricing Advocates Keep Foot on Gas
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.
What Might Biden Infrastructure Push Mean for Transit in Mass.?
If passed, President Joe Biden’s new, proposed $2 trillion infrastructure package could help jump-start a handful of long-sought transit projects in Massachusetts but it won’t transform the state overnight, advocates say.
Advocates Urge Greater Independence for T Oversight Panel
A group of transportation advocacy groups and an MBTA watchdog suggested Monday that the successor to the Fiscal and Management Control Board should be built as a larger, permanent panel that operates more independently of the Department of Transportation.
Advocates Call Transpo Bill ‘a Good Start,’ But Not Enough
While most advocates for new transportation revenues to improve the condition of roads and bridges and deliver more reliable, affordable public transit were pleased to see progress, several said they had hoped the bill would have gone further.
Transportation Advocates Push for Congestion Pricing on Beacon Hill
Citing the Baker administration’s warning that traffic is at a “tipping point,” lawmakers and advocates renewed calls Tuesday for Massachusetts to follow its peers and adjust roadway tolls at different times of day in an attempt to reduce congestion.
Baker Transit Study Draws Mixed Reaction from Experts
The near-omnipresent congestion on Massachusetts roadways has now reached a “tipping point” where access to employment is strained and meeting statewide greenhouse gas emissions targets is growing more challenging, according to a new report from the Department of Transportation.
MBTA Must Promise Concrete Results
A new poll shows state leaders need to offer a vision of a future transit system around which they can rally the public as they try to sell increases on taxes and fees for public transit.
