San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
A sweeping review of MBTA finances found the largest transportation provider in Massachusetts has relied on an overly optimistic and unsustainable financing model that now is compromising safety because it cannot fund critical maintenance and equipment... Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority - Massachusetts - Business - Transportation and Logistics - Urban Transport...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority launched a renewed public awareness campaign yesterday urging riders to report sexual harassment on buses and trains and in stations.
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
... he helped orchestrate the ouster of Daniel A. Grabauskas as general manager of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.The report is generally uncritical of MBTA management. Instead, it places most of the blame on a change in the way the MBTA was funded, a change approved by the Legislature in 2000.The idea at the time was to give the T a fixed annual subsidy, abandoning the...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
... rather than from any heart condition, as was initially suggested by officials of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. She also suffered blunt trauma and wounds from the pressure of being pinned to the escalator, the suit says.The lawsuit paints a dire picture of the MBTA’s monitoring of the escalator, in spite of past accidents with its equipment, leading to the delay of...
