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...MBTA riders pay one of the lowest fares in the country. Most subway system charge well more than a dollar; in Philadelphia, the fare is nearly double Boston's, at $1.60. Still, there are good reasons to oppose the fare hike, and while it's painful to agree with the governor, in this case...
Supporters of the bill see the fare hike as an important component of rescuing the MBTA's finances. This reasoning depends on a dangerous assumption, that bus and subway riders should be responsible for financing the public transportation system themselves. Practically speaking, this is impossible: fares make up about 20 percent of the MBTA's budget, and for the system to be self-sustaining, rates would have to rise far more than 15 cents...
Beginning January of next year, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) will extend the weekend hours of its bus service and subway and trolley lines, pushing Boston's unofficial city curfew back two hours...
Under the pilot program, the MBTA's trains and some bus routes will remain open for riders until about 2:30 a.m. on Friday and Saturday nights. Currently, the last subway cars leave downtown at about...
...this trend continues, we may, as a nation, run out of places to sit. The disquieting proof of our spreading behinds came to me via an admirably thorough piece by Rene Sanchez in the Washington Post, a piece that confirmed a vague feeling I'd been having on the subway lately that the seat running along most of the length of the car seemed awfully crowded considering how few people were sitting...