MBTA presents to MA's Fiscal and Management Control Board: the future of commuter rail

Trinnau wrote: ↑Tue Nov 10, 2020 7:53 pm

BandA wrote: ↑Sat Nov 07, 2020 1:46 pm What is the highway congestion like at rush hour?

As someone who has commuted through the entire pandemic from North of Boston on the I-93 corridor, my typical commute is either entirely at highway speed or has a brief slowdown, more frequently in the afternoon/evening. It's busier now than it was in April and backs up if there is an accident, but the "daily grind" isn't there. My daily commute time has been cut by about 40-50% of pre-pandemic. Co-workers from other parts of the state have reported the same.

Here's the presentation from the FMCB meeting.

Id say the southeast expressway is the opposite of that. Sure from march to say may I could get from boston to braintree in 10 minutes during rush hour but now its back to about 45 minutes during rush hour

Wow, that graph is quite something.

BandA wrote: ↑Tue Nov 10, 2020 2:14 pm https://pioneerinstitute.org/better_gov ... -the-mbta/ Feb 13, 2015

The MBTA's debt comes from three sources — $1.85 billion from spending since the 2000 start of forward funding, $1.65 billion that was transferred to the MBTA under forward funding and was related to previous transit projects, and $1.7 billion in funding for projects mandated under a Big Dig-related agreement.

First and foremost, the MBTA’s debt is in no way related to the construction of Big Dig tunnels, ramps, bridges and roadways meant for motor vehicle use.

So, the Big Dig Debt was only $1.7B not $3.8B, and it was more of an unfunded mandate for projects that the MBTA was required to do even though they could not afford them, and probably should not have been done.

But as part of the ("Forward Funding") law, the MBTA was shackled with 3.8 billion in debt from the Big Dig."

http://bunewsservice.com/explainer-what ... acts-ride/
One of the misleading claims by Pioneer is that the T "has outspent it's peers on capital projects."

Any legitimate watchdogging of the MBTA has been buried under a pile of exaggerations and misleading claims originating from Pioneer and it's allies.

http://usa.streetblog.org/2015/08/20/th ... n-transit/