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The Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) oversees roads, public transit, aeronautics, and transportation licensing and registration in the US state of Massachusetts. It was created on November 1, 2009, by the 186th Session of the Massachusetts General Court upon enactment of the 2009 Transportation Reform Act.
This district plan has been continued under MassDOT and the Boston area (westward along the Mass Turnpike to Weston and south through to Randolph) was the basis for a sixth district in 2010. [3] The Massachusetts Highway Department conducts an annual traffic data collection program.
In June 2019, by a vote of 5-to-2, Massport's board of directors selected the current port director Lisa Wieland to serve as the authority's chief executive. She will be earning a salary of $360,000-a-year and is scheduled to start the new position in September 2019. [8]
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Pollack also received backlash for an expedited $100,000 private bathroom at MassDOT Headquarters in 2018. [17] The controversy has become known as MassDOT's "Golden Bathroom" or "Toilet-Gate". [18] Pollack initially refused to speak to the press about the bathroom, but later released a memo stating "We should have been more careful". [19]
The Massachusetts Secretary of Transportation leads the executive management team of MassDOT in addition to serving in the Governor's Cabinet. The MBTA's executive management team is led by its General Manager, who is currently also serving as the MassDOT Rail and Transit Administrator, overseeing all public transit in the state. [167]
The 50–66 foot (15–20 m) right-of-way is still owned by MassDOT under the original layout. [3] [4] Massachusetts first gained numbered routes in 1922, with the formation of the New England Interstate Highways. Three-digit numbers were reserved for shorter routes.