The T fixed track-related slow zones on the Blue Line, resulting in 3 minutes of travel time savings (although still 2 minutes slower than February 2023). The T also suffers from operational issues at Wonderland during peak periods, hampering performance.
[The Pokey/Schleppie Awards] identifies the most unreliable routes and suggests bus priority infrastructure implementations, operations modernization, and policy and planning changes to create a better bus network for riders.
“The lack of sustainable, long-term funding hurts the ability of public transit to operate, plan, or build efficiently. I hope that the recently announced task force will give us some of those options to fully fund public transit.”
The MBTA’s proposed 2019 fare increase does not meet any appropriate test for a fair, timely or necessary increase. The MBTA has sought to justify this increase by pointing to an operating budget deficit.
TransitMatters is disappointed that T officials are proposing an average fare increase of 6.3% to take effect in July, especially given that we are not close to either significantly improved service or the introduction of AFC 2.0.