Word: mbta
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Service ceased on the subway, bus and rail lines of hte debt-plagued Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) a few minutes after midnight after state legislators failed to reach agreement on an emergency appropriation for the system...
...Greater Boston area this week faces the shutdown of its subway, bus and commuter rail service. The paradox presents an object lesson in the venal intricacies of Massachusetts politics; it represents as well an opportunity too good to miss for the transformation of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) into a stable transit network...
...state court ruled last week that Gov. Edward J. King acted illegally when he took control of the T late last month. Under the system's complicated charter, the MBTA Advisory Board--composed of representatives from the 79 cities and towns that are served by the T and provide taxes for its support-must authorize all expenditures. The board had refused to grant a suplemental budget requested by T directors, and the legislature refused to provide state funds, so King took control of the system. But under the court order, the T must find additional funding from either local communities...
...governor's choice for T dicrector, Robert Kiley, had begun to make some headway in the attempt to take control of the system away from the powerful Carmen's Union. But when King swept into office two years ago-a victory aided by the support of many in the MBTA unions-he ended that process, and the T again found itself run by a powerful and corrupt labor leadership-so powerful that it exercised near-total control over all manner of MBTA administrative decisions, so powerful that its members are able to abuse overtime payments and other contract provisions...
...also be corrected. Currently, each locality served by the T is assessed its share of the cost, money it must pay from the property tax Ivey. With the passage of Proposition 2 1/2, this unattractive mechanism became unfeasible as well- to continue to force localities to pay for the MBTA from property tax funds will only mean deeper cuts in local services...