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At the start of the meeting, Select Board Chairman Scott Despres encouraged residents to listen to speakers and take notes; he estimated over 200 people were in attendance.
The MBTA Advisory Board represents the cities and towns in the MBTA service district. The municipalities are assessed a total of $143M annually (as of FY2008). In return, the advisory board has veto power over the MBTA operating and capital budgets, including the power to reduce the overall amount. [168]
The MBTA Communities Act, passed in 2020, requires 177 communities across Massachusetts to designate at least one zoning district that allows multifamily housing as of right, meaning certain ...
The Center Gateway district, along North Main Street, was previously created by Town Meeting voters in spring 2023. Earlier: Natick, Wellesley work to comply with MBTA multifamily zoning law
Once the MBTA completes a new bus depot on Burgin Parkway, Quincy hopes to acquire the old depot on Hancock Street and convert it to open space. Quincy Planning Board OK's plan to restrict uses of ...
FALL RIVER — It's nearly boarding time. The South Coast Rail team has invited the public to a community meeting to discuss the project, which is wrapping up construction. The meeting will be ...
On February 9, 2022, it was announced by Wu and MBTA General Manager Steve Poftak that the two-year program for the three routes to be fare-free was officially agreed to and would be launched on March 1, 2022. [24] [17] In February 2022, a report was released by MBTA that showed that in the initial pilot, Route 23 saw a 20% increase in ridership.
In his first year, he vowed to clear the slow zones that plagued many of the MBTA's lines and recover ridership lost to remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic. [ 11 ] The MBTA had been widely criticized for mismanagement before Eng's appointment; the executive director of the agency's advisory board told Axios six months into Eng's term in ...