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...decisions and the administration of those funds from property owners in the MBTA service area belongs to MBTA Chairman Robert L. Foster, an appointee of Gov. Edward J. King...
James E. Smith is well-acquainted with many more of them. As director of the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) Advisory Board, Smith is responsible for guiding decisions on the funding that keeps the system running...
...wish the governor had taken a more personal interest in the MBTA earlier on his own and really examined his choice," he says, adding that King "should know the caliber of the management team, he shouldn't tell them what color pencils...
...Advisory Board last week approved a new budget for the MBTA, but a request for an additional $6.9 million will be reviewed this week. "My sense is that we won't approve it," Smith says. "We just won't be able to afford...
Immediate problems with the MBTA include its workers and their productivity. "The T can't succeed unless the work force wants it to. It's so hard to develop leadership and to identify it--something (former MBTA director Richard) Kiley was able to do," he says. "I'm a strong union guy, but they ought not to manage. This union manages and that's where it falls apart...