Wrote about D.C.’s remarkable post-Covid transit recovery, and what other cities can learn from its experiment. (The short version is: Don’t fear deficits! Transit is a public service, and the better it is, the more people will use it.) vox.com/cities-and-urb…

Neither Governor Healey’s budget proposal nor the MA House’s budget proposal will close the ~$628M budget gap the MBTA faces come July.

GM Phil Eng has said previously the agency will have to do some “tightening of the belt.”

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Pre-pandemic, WRTA ridership was declining and fare revenue covered just ~9% of expenses.

Since nixing fares in 2020, WRTA ridership has soared. Now one of the largest, longest-running fare-free systems in the country is weighing a 5th year w/o fares.
bostonglobe.com/2024/04/10/met…

The T board got a rare standing ovation today when it voted to include 'premium' trips on The Ride (currently $5.60) in its new program to provide half-priced tickets for people with low incomes.

'Today, we made history!' -Kathy Paul Mass Senior Action bostonglobe.com/2024/03/28/met…

The T says it needs to pay CRRC another $148M to get all the new Red & Orange Line cars by end of 2027.

The T was supposed to have all 404 new cars it purchased for about $871 million by September. To date, the T has only received 130 cars from CRRC.
bostonglobe.com/2024/03/28/met…

Maybe it happened to you; maybe it happened to someone you know — suddenly high electric bills, perhaps coming a supplier no one remembers signing up with.

Welcome to the wild world of competitive electric suppliers — Miriam Wasser and I dove in.

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In Argentina, where presidential rhetoric minimizes the atrocities of the last dictatorship, courts are continuing the work of bringing perpetrators to justice. Yesterday, several guilty verdicts in this case, the first to hear from trans women.

theguardian.com/world/2023/nov…

Boston bus lanes & bus stops meant to make transit faster than driving and boarding seamless for riders are constantly blocked by cars.

Bus mounted cameras are tackling this in other cities, but remain outlawed here. The Legislature may soon change that. bostonglobe.com/2024/03/26/met…

The driver of a Ford F-150 pickup truck struck and killed a 4yo girl at the intersection of Sleeper and Congress streets on Sunday.

The area was already slated for pedestrian safety improvements next year by the city. by John R. Ellement Ava Berger
bostonglobe.com/2024/03/25/met…

Battery electric trains and 20mn headways could be coming to the Fairmount Line by 2027 under a new proposal from Keolis.

Currently, the Fairmount Line’s diesel trains run every 45mns, at best, on weekdays and every 90mns on weekends.
bostonglobe.com/2024/03/24/met…

Essential read if you’re not in Argentina by Facundo Iglesia en The Guardian theguardian.com/world/2024/mar…

New: The story of the poor indigenous Peruvians working —sometimes even for free— helping the world’s richest person sell $9,000 vicuña sweaters

It is the finest wool in the world, but in the Andes, they see none of the wealth bloomberg.com/features/2024-…

A notoriously traffic-snarled and dangerous three-mile stretch of Blue Hill Avenue through Mattapan and Dorchester could start to become a vision of transit efficiency. Buses will soon cruise down dedicated center lanes, the city announced Wednesday. trib.al/09b81hR

Ok, all work reels are kind of cringe, lol. But my awesome cousin Julio Alvarez made this one for me and I love it.

Reminder if you need a journalist that knows print, TV and radio, I might be your guy. DMs open.
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ICYMI: This is what the MBTA was supposed to look like, according to the The Boston Globe.
In 1947 the Globe published this map w/ the Green Line going all the way out to Woburn... the Red Line out to Lexington... Orange Line to Dedham... and Blue Line extended out to Lynn. #MBTA

The MBTA estimates a yawning budget gap of $628 million come July, and top leaders have failed to advance any long-term solutions. trib.al/c7UIz8C

As the end of the existing fare-free bus program in Boston approaches, the T is moving forward with only low-income fare for its entire system. Mayor Michelle Wu, however, has pledged to come up with the funding to keep the program on three lines going. trib.al/cXfYRG9