Boston Magazines’s Boston Daily | BY Steve Poftak POSTED ON 9/23/2011 It’s bloodsport in these parts to complain about the MBTA. But the latest MBTA scorecard makes one thing clear — the operations staff is doing a close to miraculous job keeping the system running in the face of massive deferred maintenance and dwindling equipment …
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Sep 23 2011
No Such Thing as a Free Ride
Representatives from Boston Carmen’s Union ATU Local 589 testified before the Joint Committee on Transportation to correct false claims by State Representative Steve Howitt that T workers and Retirees get “free rides” on the MBTA. Vice President Jim O’Brien, Delegate Larry Kelly, Recording Secretary John Clancy and Legislaive Agent Richard Guiney explained that the T pass …
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Sep 22 2011
MBTA Workers Could Lose Free Rides
BOSTON — Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority employees could be paying to ride the buses and subway cars under a proposal being considering by state lawmakers. The Legislature’s Joint Committee on Transportation heard testimony on a bill Thursday that would prohibit
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