Wednesday, May 8, 2013
There have been 28 reported assaults on MBTA employees during the first four months of 2013.
The MBTA wants the public to know that if they attack a driver who is working, there will be serious consequences. The MBTA’s new “Don’t Touch The Driver” public relations campaign features posters on the ceilings and backs of chairs inside buses depicting hands in handcuffs, and messages warning that an attacker will be sought after, arrested and prosecuted. “Violence toward a bus driver is against the law,” one poster says. “We will prosecute.” The campaign, which includes a new recorded message issued by MBTA General Manager Beverly Scott at T stations, follows the most recent attack, which took place in Dorchester where a group of teenagers flagged down a bus and then proceeded to attack the driver. There have been 28 reported …
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
The MBTA faces a budget deficit heading into the next fiscal year, which begins July 1.
After all of the talk, public hearings, and protests over the past three months, the MBTA Board voted Wednesday afternoon to boost fares 23 percent and cut back service in an attempt to close a projected $161 million deficit in the next fiscal year. Board members approved a plan in a 4-1 vote that would raise most subway fares by 30 cents, bus fares by 25 cents, and commuter rail fares by at least $1.25. Meanwhile, some cuts in service—mainly involving bus routes, The Ride and the Commuter Rail—were also approved. Locally, weekend Commuter Rail service on the Needham Line will be cut, but Bus 59 will continue to operate on its usual schedule. Many people showed up at Wednesday's hearing on Beacon Hill and were given a chance to talk …
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Updated proposal would preserve the town's Bus 59 route and include a 23 percent fare increase across the board.
The Massachusetts Department of Transportation announced an updated budget plan today that would eliminate weekend Commuter Rail service in Needham but preserve the local bus route, Bus 59, that many people working and living in town rely on daily. The new plan, announced in a news release posted at 11:30 a.m. on mbta.com, serves to close a $185 million gap in the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s budget for fiscal year 2013. Along with limiting the service cuts originally proposed, the new plan includes an average fare increase of 23 percent, as opposed to the 35-43 percent increase outlined in the original proposal. The final proposal will be submitted for MBTA board approval by April 4 and is the result of more than two …
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Needham Heights Train Station
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Needham Center Train Station
Great Plain Ave & Eaton Sq, Needham, MA
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Needham Junction Train Station
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012
The town's Transportation Committee has scheduled a public hearing for Monday, Feb. 27 at Town Hall to consider proposed Commuter Rail and bus line reductions.
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Needham residents will have the chance to voice their opinions about proposed changes to MBTA service at a public hearing scheduled for Monday, Feb. 27 at 7:30 p.m. in the second-floor Powers Hall at Needham Town Hall. The purpose of this community meeting, which is being organized by the Needham Transportation Committee, is to provide interested Needham residents with the latest information about the fare increases and service reductions proposed by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) and Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA), as well as an opportunity to comment on the specifics of the proposals. This meeting is not sponsored by the MassDOT/MBTA, but is a local meeting for the sole purpose of reviewing …
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Tuesday, February 14, 2012
More than 400 people turned out for the a public hearing in Boston on Monday, Feb. 13 to argue against proposals that would eliminate weekend Commuter Rail service, among other changes.
The proposed MBTA fare hikes fall disproportionally on the elderly, disabled, student and low income population, many people said at a packed-to-capacity public hearing Monday night in Boston. Following an Occupy Boston rally at Copley Square hundreds of people—many of them college students—flowed into the Boston Public Library. They filled the 342-seat auditorium and 110-seat overflow room by 6:05 p.m. "Some people got here at 4:30," a library worker said. Officials began turning away at least 100 people lined up inside the foyer and promised to add more public hearings to the already lengthy list. "If we try to raise the fare the way we are now, there won't be more money," said Back Bay resident Elliot Laffer. "There will be a failed…
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Needham Center Train Station
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tom cunningham
1:29 pm on Tuesday, February 14, 2012
The MBTA needs to stop paying the private boat company 2.7 Million Dollars a year to ferry people back and forth from the most elite sections of the city while cutting services and raising fare for the must vulnerable members of our society. If the people who live in Scituate, Hull and Hingham want or need to take public transportation they need to hop on a bus or a train like the rest of us. more ›