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...Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) subway system is perhaps the most underappreciated public resource in the Boston area. Although many grumble over its inconveniences, few could do without it, and many quite literally need it to survive. We may lament its early closing time or uneven schedule, but without the ‘T,’ vast swaths of the public, not just we tight-budgeted students, would be hamstrung...
...unconscionable, for example, that five years after Sept. 11, MBTA police officers still don’t possess the adequate technology to communicate with local fire departments or ambulance services and will not be able to do so for at least 18 more months. In addition to better communications equipment, Barrios’ report calls for the hiring of 100 more MBTA police officers, for full-scale subway terrorism drills, and for better allocation of federal homeland security money to help local communities outside of Boston proper to secure their T infrastructure. All are necessary measures to improve the safety...
...included in the 1990 agreement, choosing instead to divert transportation funds to other expensive highway projects and mass transit extensions that would primarily benefit the Commonwealth’s more affluent residents. Among the most needed of the 1990 projects is an extension of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) Green Line from its Lechmere terminus to the northwest through Somerville and Medford. Somerville, one of the largest—and most underserved—communities in the metropolitan area, has only one T stop (in Davis Square), and that’s at the very edge of the town...
...FiCom’s policy of not funding transporation costs. Earlier in the year, the UC overruled FiCom’s recommendation and awarded $2,000 to cover transportation costs to the Mission Hill Afterschool Program. Since that decision, FiCom has reemphasized that it will only subsidize MBTA subway tokens. The UC received more than 350 student group grant applications for this final allocation and received about $40,000 more in grant requests this year compared to last year, said Adelman. The UC funded approximately 300 of the student group grants by allocating $20,518.61 in cash awards, according...
...closing is nigh. Johnson does not look up—she has heard the recorded message so many times it has ceased to have any meaning. Johnson’s uncomprehending reply does not surprise Frank E. Oglesby, Deputy Director for Customer Service for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA). “People are dismissive of a computer-generated voice,” he says. “A human voice is much more reassuring.” Oglesby should know—it is his own silky baritone, after all, that calls out the stops on the MBTA...