Back Bay Station Concourse Project: Public Meeting

MBTA PUBLIC MEETING Back Bay Station Concourse Project DATE:                 Monday, September 26, 2016 TIME:                  6:00 PM LOCATION:      Transportation Building 10 Park Plaza Conference Rooms 1, 2 and 3 Boston, MA  02116 MEETING AGENDA:         The MBTA’s Back Bay Station project team will present the 30% design for the forthcoming renovations of the Back Bay …

73 Bus Summer 2016 Service Issues

In response to constituent complaints about the service quality of the 73 bus, we reached out to the MBTA to see if there was an explanation and also to get a timeline for the return of the trackless trolley service.  Below is the response from MTA Service Planning: As the original email suggested, the recent poor performance …

Changing Expectations for the Green Line

At our recent forum about the Green Line’s future, MBTA General Manager Frank DePoala offered hope for continuous improvement of reliability and modest resulting capacity increases, but no hope for big capacity increases within the visible planning horizon. The dose of reality he offered about the long term will require some time to digest.

New Commuter Rail Schedules which will go into effect on Monday, May 23, 2016

Last fall Keolis and the MBTA announced new Commuter Rail schedules but delayed implementation – those schedules were rolled out with limited notice and limited public input.  Secretary Pollack  postponed the rollout to this spring after some public input. The MBTA rereleased the new schedules, with some changes in response to the feedback received, which will go into effect on …

MassDOT Draft 5 year Capital Investment Plan (CIP) FY17-FY22

Every year MassDOT releases a  Capital Investment Plan (CIP), which lays out the long term investments that the administration will make in our transportation infrastructure.  Last year, being the first year of the new administration MassDOT only released a 1 year CIP for the MBTA and MassDOT as the agencies reassessed the commitments made by the …