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...bill includes a proposed 19-cent increase to the state gas tax that would help stave off the MBTA??s projected $161 million deficit in the next fiscal year...
...experienced the crowding first hand. “I felt like a sardine,” he said of an experience last summer on the T. Mary C. Roche, another T rider, said she has experienced packed T cars as well but still expressed her misgivings about the MBTA??s new program. “On one ride people actually had to get off. I think that’s dangerous and unhealthy. But I myself don’t think these Big Red cars are going to solve anything. They should just add another...
...noted that music could improve the subway experience if the music is “soothing and non-invasive.” A Harvard Square T station guitarist identifying himself only as “Barry” hadn’t yet heard of the MBTA??s plans while playing to a Sunday evening crowd. When asked of how he thought T-Radio would affect his business he simply responded, “It won’t. I’ll just play louder...
...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?...
...Harvard students, who live along a subway line and use the T only occasionally, the MBTA??s proposed fare restructuring may seem to be little more than an inconvenience. But those with a social conscience should shelve their self-interested frustration—or misplaced altruism—and support a fare structure that will make the T both economically viable and fairer, even if they don’t work for the MBTA...