Word: busful
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...little extra travel time, Helgen has also coordinated a system of shuttling volunteers out to Rhode Island in order to deliver some much-appreciated support for Sheldon Whitehouse, the Democratic candidate for Senate. Students drag themselves out of bed by 10 a.m. every Saturday to climb onto a bus full of fellow Dems ready for a long day of phone calls, envelope stuffing, and making sure there’s enough caffeine to go around...
When the MBTA announced early this summer that, starting in 2007, subway fares will rise from $1.25 to $1.70 per ride, and bus fares will jump from $0.90 to $1.25, the organization surprised few; commentators had been anticipating just such a move from the deeply indebted MBTA for years. Likewise, it has hardly been a surprise that opposition to the fare change has sprung up across the city. Yet the virulence of this opposition is, in many ways, beyond what could have been expected. Groups and publications including The Phoenix and the T Riders’ Union have accused...
...most commendable element of the MBTA’s proposed fare increases isn’t their relative moderation; it’s their remarkable fairness. While the cost of the bus alone will rise by $0.35, and the subway by $0.45, bus-to-subway transfers will be included in the price of a subway ride, meaning that the cost to those who commute downtown and need to take a bus to get to a subway station will actually fall from $2.15 to $1.70. Many of Boston’s lowest-income residents fall in this category; these system users?...
...riders will be able to obtain and register reusable plastic CharlieCards at select retail locations, which will enable them to receive free transfers and lower fares. Occasional riders—such as tourists and most Harvard students—will have to purchase disposable paper CharlieTickets at subway and bus stations and will have to pay surcharges and an additional transfer fee. In other words, the MBTA fares are designed for working people who truly rely on the services it provides. At the very least, the changes show that the MBTA does have regular users, and those least able...
...Massachussetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) and the Massachussetts Turnpike Authority (MTA) are not generally known for their prudence. The half-baked Silver Line “bus rapid transit” project for Roxbury and the unending mess that is the Big Dig spring to mind, to name a just a couple of poor decisions. True to form, the recent decisions by the MBTA to raise public transportation fares and by the MTA to eliminate all turnpike tolls beyond Route 128 will prove to be a terrible tandem, encouraging people to hop off the T and back into their cars...