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Pages tagged "2021"

Public Transit Rally Held On Beacon Hill

By Lorraine Fryer | Sep 30, 2021

Stacy Thompson was among the organizers and said changes need to be made. “We need our elected officials to take accountability, safety and funding seriously so that we can get the ‘t’ back on track,” she said. “Most importantly bring trust back, which we had been building with the previous control board.”

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MBTA Woes Trigger Calls For Revenue, Board Appointments

By Lorraine Fryer | Sep 30, 2021

Outside the State House, Stacy Thompson, executive director of the LivableStreets Alliance, said she agreed with Baker's assertion that his predecessors should have made bigger investments in the T and showcased 30 reports assembled over the past 20 years that pointed to "chronic disinvestment."

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MBTA ridership rebounds, somewhat, from pandemic

By Lorraine Fryer | Sep 30, 2021

“So, why aren’t we running as much transit service as possible, why aren’t we building as much infrastructure as humanly possible, because we already have the information that we know that people want to use those modes.”

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Advocates For More T Funding And Oversight Rally On Beacon Hill

By Lorraine Fryer | Sep 30, 2021

“We have the tools,” said Stacy Thompson, executive director of LivableStreets Alliance. “We have the solutions. Now it is the opportunity of our elected officials and the State House and the governor to build back trust and to use the tools they already have in their toolkit to get it done.”

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Transportation advocates rally at State House for more funding for MBTA

By Lorraine Fryer | Sep 30, 2021

“When we had a control board, every single Monday we heard from leadership, every single week we had a body that was supposed to look into incidents like this,” said Stacy Thompson of LivableStreets Alliance.

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Regularly scheduled service resumes on MBTA Red Line after train derails

By Lorraine Fryer | Sep 29, 2021

Stacy Thompson: A lot in the advocacy community have been saying, look, we’ve told you. So it is never ok when a person is injured or traumatized because of a preventable maintenance issue.

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Frustrated by Yet Another MBTA Derailment, Transit Advocates Push for Change

By Lorraine Fryer | Sep 29, 2021

"A huge amount of the workforce depends on the T, and if it's not safe and it's not reliable, our economy is not going to come back out of COVID, and that's going to have a ripple effect across the region and the state," Thompson said.

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Oversight of potential safety risks at MBTA stations under question after BU professor dies in fall from staircase

By Lorraine Fryer | Sep 26, 2021

“It’s these kinds of intersections, roads, and staircases where we still see really bad things happen,” said Stacy Thompson, executive director of the advocacy group LivableStreets Alliance. She pointed to several other properties, including bridges over the Charles River that have shifted owners or maintenance over the years. “That is not a sustainable way to manage assets between agencies.”

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Report: MBTA faces fiscal cliff

By Lorraine Fryer | Sep 22, 2021

“[The state legislature is] sitting with a dozen different revenue proposals from advocates that are all well-supported,” Thompson said. “So, to me, it’s just a distraction to ask the trade-offs question when it’s entirely feasible and reasonable to raise the revenue for the needs we have both on maintenance and on new construction.”

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Transit advocates hope stark report on MBTA finances delivers a wake-up call

By Lorraine Fryer | Sep 16, 2021

“The next time the T derails or lights on fire, I don’t want anyone to be surprised,” said Stacy Thompson, executive director of LivableStreets Alliance. “It’s a matter of political will at this point. . . . I hope this is a wake up call.”

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