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Sticker shock: MBTA says nearly $25 billion needed to repair aging system


That cost includes only repairs and not any upgrades to the system
Massachusetts Congressman Seth Moulton also issued a statement Thursday calling the T's announcement "the honest assessment we've been waiting for." He added that "$24.5 billion is a big number, but it’s not shocking given the accumulation of decades of under-investment."


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Sticker shock: MBTA says nearly $25 billion needed to repair aging system

The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority says it will cost $24.5 billion to repair the systems' many problems, according to an internal analysis released…
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libramoon
libramoon
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that's what happens when you don't keep up on the maintenance -- you get to pay all it all as a crisis
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Bob Lai
Bob Lai
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This happened at our station. A retiring engineer advised the chief engineer that a key part of the satellite controller needed to be replaced.

The chief engineer ignored him.

The part failed, leaving us no way to steer the satellite dish. So we had to spend considerably more routing ALL of our satellite traffic (network feeds, commercial feeds, etc.) through a third-party provider.

I ran into Tony a couple of years later and told him what had happened. He laughed.

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Joseph Teller
Joseph Teller
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And thats what happens when the Republicans screw with the budgets, replace the controlling board with their own political hacks, drain off funds to add a rail line that pretty much serves the wealthy but lets rolling stock on the rest of the system crumble, awards contracts to untried outside companies (5 years after being contracted and paid a Chinese contractor still has failed to deliver passenger cars or engines) etc

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