Feb 19 2022
Last week the MBTA held the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Quincy bus maintenance facility, scheduled to be completed in 2024. With the ability to house 120 buses, this new facility will be the first entirely electric bus fleet, part of the MBTA’s initiative to replace vehicles with clean, zero-emission buses. This is just one …
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Mar 15 2021
With the MBTA cutting 20 percent of its T service and several bus routes after receiving $1 billion in federal aid, Congressman Stephen Lynch said that he and the rest of the Transportation Committee plan to have “some hard discussions with the MBTA and with the governor.”
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Mar 07 2021
Below is an excerpt from a story (“Essential workers feel ‘left behind’ in MA COVID-19 vaccine rollout“) in yesterday’s Boston Herald. Click here to read the entire article. ——————- Transportation workers can get vaccines in New York. But Jim Evers, president of the Boston Carmen’s Union 589 of MBTA workers, continues to be frustrated that the administration has further …
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