Next Stop #2: Follow the Money

Public transportation needs to change to be clean, reliable and more attractive to riders. That requires money. Over the next five years Massachusetts will receive more than 9 billion dollars in new federal infrastructure funding. This is in addition to existing state and federal funding for transportation.

What are our needs for investments and for operations? Is there enough funding to make our transit system modern, climate-friendly, reliable and safe? At a time when we need to slash carbon emissions and pollution from transportation, and encourage more people to take transit. What are the funding priorities?

Join Josh Ostroff, of the Transportation for Massachusetts Coalition, Lizzi Weyant of the Metropolitan Area Planning Council, and Brian Kane, Executive Director of the MBTA Advisory Board for this informative discussion moderated by Bob Seay of GBH.

----- Contents of the video ----
0:00:00 - Intro
0:03:08 - Intro Panelists
0:03:44 - Enough money?
0:11:15 - Political Will
0:19:42 - Debt Burden
0:25:49 - Expanding RTAs
0:32:05 - Challenges
0:44:15 - Impact of Free/Low Income Fares
0:50:50 - Investing Tax Dollars
0:53:54 - Final Comments

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