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TransitMatters Reveals The MBTA's Slowest And ...

[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.

TransitMatters Reveals The MBTA's Slowest And Most Bunched Buses
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TransitMatters Director's Public Comment At ...

“I'm excited to see [the Low Income Fare] program increase access, change lives, and save riders and the Commonwealth money.”

TransitMatters Director's Public Comment At March 2024 MBTA Board Meeting
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TransitMatters Executive Director's Speech At ...

“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.”

TransitMatters Executive Director's Speech At Governor Healey's Press Conference
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Valentines For Transit Workers

Join TransitMatters in showing our appreciation for transit workers by giving Valentine’s Day cards to frontline transit workers on February 14!

Valentines For Transit Workers
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2023 Regional Rail Retrospective

As Regional Rail gains momentum, we at TransitMatters are fine-tuning our advocacy strategy to keep pressure on the state and T to invest in the system.

2023 Regional Rail Retrospective

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Podcast 30 - Kids on Transit with Lee Biernbaum

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[Lede Photo: Kids on transit is a tale as old as...transit — Shirley Temple Rides the 'L' via Flickr]

We're joined in studio by Lee Biernbaum, an economist for the U.S. Department of Transportation and author of the Kids In The Stairwell blog.   We cover issues with kids on transit including strollers on buses and trains, having a car-free family and children using transit. 

This episode was recorded on June 19th in the studios of WMBR 88.1 FM in Cambridge, engineered by Scott Mullen and edited by Charleston Sarjeant.

TransitMatters advocates for fast, frequent, reliable and effective public transportation in and around Boston. As part of our vision to repair, upgrade and expand the MBTA transit network, we aim to elevate the conversation around transit issues by offering new perspectives, uniting transit advocates and promoting a level of critical analysis normally absent from other media.

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