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MBTA Chooses Neither Service Scenario
The official public comment period on the proposed fare hikes and service cuts ended last night
After months of debate over the MBTA's for cutting services and raising fares to meet their projected $161 million budget deficit, the period of public comment ended last night at the MBTA's final public hearing, held at a senior center in Brighton.
In a Boston Globe article on the meeting, MBTA GM Jonathan Davis explained how they were going to move forward. According to him and the Globe, "neither of the two previously released scenarios will be selected by the agency’s board," but, "Instead, the committee that drafted those two proposals will take testimony from all of the hearings’ speakers and feedback from more than 5,600 e-mails and draft new recommendations."
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The MBTA board's monthly meeting is April 4th, and, also per the Globe, "Davis said he hopes those recommendations will be submitted by [then]."
Regardless, per the Globe, "The T’s board has until April 15 to approve a budget for fiscal 2013. That budget, and any service cuts or fare increases that go with it, will take effect July 1."
