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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
Public Comment
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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
Public Comment
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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
Commuter Rail, Advocacy
TransitMatters
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 11b - Should MBTA Riders Receive Refunds?

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After a historic month of MBTA service delays and suspensions, many riders, politicians and media figures are asking the T to refund money to February monthly pass holders. What form would rebates take? Should the T use very limited funds for this purpose? Is a refund even helpful, or does it simply shift focus from fixing T infrastructure to blaming T management?

Episode 11 guest Rich Parr, Research Director for MassINC Polling, sticks around with Jeremy and Marc to debate the rebate hot potato.

UPDATE: Yesterday the MBTA announced they would be offering a free fare day in late April and discounts on May passes. More business as usual: blame T management for political problems.