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...needed $41 million to remain in operation. After a 26-hour shutdown, the state legislature voted to provide emergency funding and finance $23.5 million of it, with $10 million to come from MBTA revenues and $7.5 million to be paid by the 79 cities and towns served by the transit system. But Proposition 2½ forbids state agencies to increase assessments on cities and towns by more than 4% over the previous year. The bill for the MBTA deficit pushed the increase to between 9% and 17%. Citizens for Limited Taxation, proponents of 2½, promptly pressured the legislature...
...slice 2% from the $640 billion budget for 1981; Stockman may push for more radical surgery. Earlier this year, he advocated abolishing federal revenue sharing with cities and states, paring back federal job programs, freezing Medicaid payments, and reducing appropriations for foreign aid, social science research and mass transit. In addition, he said he would cut the budgets of all regulatory agencies...
Although federal law usually requires mass transit authorities to announce service cutbacks at least 30 days in advance, the cutbacks took effect immediately because the MBTA qualified under "emergency circumstances" provision of the law, DiNatale said...
...legislature remained in session after midnight; either the legislature or the Advisory Board of communities served by the transit network could vote the money needed for the system at any time today or tomorrow and have trains running in time for Monday rush hour...
...arrived at Blodgett on Sept. 1, and the team practices began just a month later. Hays mentions only the climatic change and what she considers Boston's superior mass transit system when asked about the transition she had to undergo when she arrived in Cambridge. But instead of dwelling on herself, her conversation unfailingly turns to the subject of the aquawomen and her ambitions for them...