"The MBTA is pushing ahead with electrification, but on its own terms.
Transit advocates, climate activists, and many lawmakers are pushing the T to ditch its diesel buses and quickly embrace battery electric buses. They are also pressing the transit authority to start electrifying commuter rail lines, particularly those running through environmental justice communities, and to scrap plans to discontinue use of the electric trolleys that operate off catenary wires in Cambridge. "
https://commonwealthmagazine.org/the-download/mbta-in-no-big-rush-on-electrification-2/
"MBTA PASSENGER LEVELS, which took a hit earlier this year when COVID levels shot up, have recovered their lost ground and appear to be picking up steam, particularly on the commuter rail system.
Commuter rail ridership a year ago was just 11.6 percent of pre-COVID levels. Passenger levels rose a bit in the last half of 2021 but they really began to pick up during the first three months of this year. Ridership on commuter rail hit 31 percent of pre-COVID levels in January, rose to 39 percent in February, and reached 49 percent in March."
https://commonwealthmagazine.org/transportation/mbta-ridership-rebounding-particularly-on-commuter-rail/
"WE ARE HEADING for a massive MBTA operating budget deficit next year, and no one in power on Beacon Hill is doing anything about it. This is not a theory or hypothesis; this is a fact, something the T itself candidly acknowledges and has publicly stated.
Why will this happen? And what can be done to avoid the impending crisis?"
https://commonwealthmagazine.org/opinion/the-t-should-not-be-playing-fiscal-musical-chairs/
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| CommonWealth Magazine: 3 articles on MBTA electrification schedule, ridership, and budget woes |
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