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Pages tagged "Transit press"

MBTA pauses nearly all contractor work on tracks for 48 hours after fed crackdown

By Chris Van Buskirk | Sep 22, 2023

“I unfortunately think that the FTA is following an old playbook, where they sort of just stopped work, ask agencies to send them more paperwork and don’t offer meaningful solutions,”

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Eng announces shake-up in MBTA leadership, including new safety chief

By Katie Cole and Andrea Perdomo-Hernandez | Sep 22, 2023

“Now there are clear leadership structures internally where we'll know if something goes wrong, who was responsible for those challenges,”

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Here's why the T is so slow, according to a new report

By Tiziana Dearing and Rob Lane | Sep 12, 2023

We answer the basic questions about the report with insights shared by Stacy Thompson of the advocacy group LivableStreets and Boston Globe transportation reporter Taylor Dolven during a conversation with WBUR's Radio Boston.

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Healey’s Transportation Secretary Gina Fiandaca out after less than a year

By Matthew Medsger | Aug 28, 2023

“In any administration, there’s always the first secretary to go. So this just happens to be Gina Fiandaca,”

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Mass. transportation secretary will step down fewer than eight months after she started. Why?

By Taylor Dolven and Matt Stout | Aug 28, 2023

“This job,” Thompson said, “is less about ribbon cuttings and more about operations.”

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Fiandaca Departing After Short Stint As Transpo Secretary

By Chris Lisinski | Aug 28, 2023

"But we didn't really see Gina out front a lot," she said. "It's hard to exactly name what she was or was not doing."

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Know anyone who wants to be chief safety officer at the MBTA?

By Taylor Dolven | Aug 15, 2023

“He walked into the middle of a pandemic which turned into an abject safety crisis under an administration that wasn’t willing to give him the resources he needed,”

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MBTA's chief safety officer resigning this month, GM says in letter

By Matt Fortin | Aug 15, 2023

Hear what LivableStreets Alliance Executive Director Stacy Thompson, and others, had to say on the MBTA's chief safety officer resigning.

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The T and the tunnel

By Tiziana Dearing and Rob Lane | Jun 28, 2023

The Sumner Tunnel is closing for nearly two months, beginning in early July, to allow for repairs. Can the beleaguered T pick up the slack?

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New records show the close calls on MBTA tracks that prompted federal safety demands

By Laura Crimaldi | Jun 02, 2023

Stacy Thompson, executive director of LivableStreets Alliance, a nonprofit transportation advocacy organization, said preventing the close calls that caught the attention of federal regulators requires focusing on basic principles like training and procedures.

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