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nottoodrunk t1_je0cn5j wrote

Reply to comment by RentAscout in Crisis-Hit MBTA to Be Led by Man Who Turned Around Long Island Railroad by Illustrious-Nose3100

Wasn’t that debt all projects that went to improving / upgrading the MBTA? Why shouldn’t they be responsible for it?

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Haltopen t1_je0kxmh wrote

No, it wasn’t

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nottoodrunk t1_je0zptr wrote

Oh sorry i was slightly wrong.

https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2012/02/29/mbta-big-dig-debt/

> The key point is that despite the moniker “Big Dig Debt,” all of these projects directly relate to transit expansion or improvements like extending the commuter rail on the South Shore and to Worcester, adding parking spaces, building out the Fairmount Line — not roadways and, certainly, not the Big Dig. They came about as a result of an agreement that had to be signed in order for the environmental permitting around the Big Dig to take place.

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denga t1_je2p0lh wrote

How were those projects chosen? Were they what the T needed at the time or was it driven by the federal funding requirements?

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