Word: mbta
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...Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) has cut at least 20 night bus runs in Cambridge in a system-wide effort to trim the debt-ridden T's operating expenses...
Paul DiNatale, an MBTA spokesman, said yesterday the cut-backs on buses and commuter rails throughout the MBTA will affect approximately 2000 riders. But he would not speculate how many riders the Cambridge cutbacks would affect. He based his estimate on ridership surveys the MBTA takes several times a year...
...financial decision. It's no secret that we're operating under Proposition 2 1/2 and a 4-per-cent capped budget," DiNatale said. Gov. Edward J. King signed legislation Sunday limiting the MBTA's yearly budget growth to 4 per cent as part of the state program to bail out the debt-ridden system...
...state court ordered the shutdown last Friday, but allowed a week for the legislature to solve the MBTA's fiscal problems...
King assumed responsibility of the system when it ran out of funds in mid-November. The Advisory Board, which provides most of the system's funding, had refused MBTA administration requests for a supplemental budget unless the system was reorganized to decrease the power of the Carmen's Union...