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...MBTA??€™s board of directors approved a five-month extension of its five-year contract with Kone Corporation, an Illinois-based company that is responsible for the upkeep of the subway system’s escalators and elevators...
Regardless of where the blame lies, the three recent accidents on the MBTA??€™s escalators and elevators have drawn attention to safety concerns on the subway system...
...fare hike claim that Boston’s subways and buses are still the cheapest in the country, but inhabitants of poor and poorly serviced neighborhoods can testify that paying separately for rides on a bus and a subway for the same trip is hardly a bargain. And the MBTA??€™s disregard for low-income users goes far beyond its fares. On the Orange Line, which serves many low-income neighborhoods, subways have been known to run once every half-hour. The Silver Line has turned out to be an ersatz subway route covered mostly by bus service...
Instead of resorting to a fare increase, the state should have addressed the MBTA??€™s financial difficulties by transferring money from more prosperous agencies and increasing subsidies. The promise not to increase fares again until after 2006 is far too weak a concession. The MBTA should make a more durable commitment to the community of riders by keeping fares low, steering improvement efforts toward the neighborhoods that truly need them and allowing an independent audit of its accounts. As it stands, the fare hike remains a suggestion of a regressive transportation policy in which those who can afford...
Today, the MBTA??€™s apparent perception of subway musicians stands in stark contrast to that of New York City, which, following Sept. 11, sponsored subway musicians to re-enter the subways because of the confidence their presence inspired in commuters, Baird says...