Word: mbta
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...superior court judge has questioned the constitutionality of the proposition, and a boatload of other legal wrangles are looming. The first test began the very day that 2½ became law. The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA), which serves 300,000 Boston-area commuters, was broke and needed $41 million to remain in operation. After a 26-hour shutdown, the state legislature voted to provide emergency funding and finance $23.5 million of it, with $10 million to come from MBTA revenues and $7.5 million to be paid by the 79 cities and towns served by the transit system. But Proposition...
...There has to be a realistic approach to the fare system," State Rep. Lincoln Cole, a member of the House and Senate Conference Committee that drew up the MBTA Reform bill which resolved the authority's recent financial crisis, said yesterday. Cole declined to name a specific increase...
...Commuters must expect to do their fair share to help out the present MBTA financial situation," he added...
Before passage of the reform bill, the governor had no representatives on the Advisory Board, which controls fare in- creases, service cutbacks, and approves the MBTA's annual budget...
...only fair that the governor has more direct input," Cole said yesterday, adding that the state pays for more than half of the MBTA's operating costs