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...Edward J. King appointed yesterday as his representative to the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) Advisory Board said he will seek a "moderate" fare increase which he believes is necessary "to keep the system running...
...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...
...added that a court ruled last summer that before it could increase fares again, the MBTA would have to conduct an environmental impact survey to test the effect of increased automobile use resulting from bus and subway ridership declines. Shapiro said the ruling would make a bus fare increase "less likely but not impossible...