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MBTA LAUNCHES SPECIAL PANEL DATA WEBSITE

Posted on May 7, 2015

 BOSTON - Today, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority launched a designated webpage to make public data used by the MBTA Special Panel during its rapid diagnostic of the T's management, governance, finances, and capital spending.

"We are pleased the MBTA launched this website to provide the data used to inform the Panel's findings," said Governor Charlie Baker. "Understanding exactly what challenges our transit system faces is critical to implementing the reforms that will allow the Commonwealth to do better than the status quo, which clearly is not meeting the needs of the people and businesses that rely on the T. The data and the Panel's report shed light on why the system failed this winter and why the people deserve reforms now to overcome the fiscal and operational challenges at the T."

Following the historic winter's effects on the T's ability to operate, the Special Panel members undertook a six-week 'deep dive' into the structural challenges currently facing the T. The results were a series of short- and long-term findings and recommendations seeking to instill a stringent fiscal discipline into the T's finances, develop a governance system with stronger accountability, and address fundamental needs in system maintenance, state-of-good-repair projects, and capacity projects.

"Now that the Special Panel's work has concluded, we are turning our full attention to implementing its recommendations," said MassDOT Secretary and CEO Stephanie Pollack. "We also want to ensure that people have full access to the data that the Panel used, as well as additional analysis that we are conducting. It's important that people understand the severity of the problems at the MBTA and the need for a Fiscal and Management Control Board to address those problems."

The MBTA will continue to add new and deeper analyses to the website as they become available.

The data can be found by visiting: http://www.mbta.com/about_the_mbta/MBTABackOnTrack/

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