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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...
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...
...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...
...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...