Category Archive: Gas Tax

Jan 31

Menino urges new revenue for MBTA

By Eric Moskowitz | Boston Globe | January 31, 2012 Mayor Thomas M. Menino urged the state to avoid steep MBTA fare increases and service cuts, calling in a letter received yesterday by top state leaders for a gas tax or other increased levy to aid the T.

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Jan 21

Local Leaders React to MBTA’s Proposed Cuts, Favor Upping Gas Tax

Photo of Massachusetts State House

By Jarret Bencks | Somerville Patch | January 20, 2012 While the MBTA has ideas to solve its funding crisis, the state legislature is likely to come up with its own. The MBTA Caucus of the state’s legislature—state representatives whose communities are served by

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