the unwillingness of Mass Legislature and the Governor to properly fund the #MBTA is leading to some key transit infra projects being delayed
the unwillingness of Mass Legislature and the Governor to properly fund the #MBTA is leading to some key transit infra projects being delayed https://t.co/QKtYgpiekw
the near term solution here is that $500m in FY25 Fair Share funds should be given to the T as unrestricted capital funds
@friendchristoph Which is probably what most people expected would happen when they voted for the amendment.
@garrett_wollman @friendchristoph Maybe inside 128. Nobody assumed this outside the MBTA's service zone. That said, you could easily borrow that or more by committing a fraction of that amount for bond payments.
@garrett_wollman @friendchristoph Outstate Massachusetts can be unfairly bitchy about MBTA spending, but such a move would be a political Chernobyl. The sin of the legislature and executive is not that they don't give the MBTA a pony but that they don't even try to give it a toy horse on a string.