Virtually every major U.S. metropolitan area faces a dilemma of how to maintain or increase public transport ridership without greatly increasing the gap between transit costs and passenger revenues; this gap, which they call the transit deficit, usually is financed by the taxpayer. Boston is no exception to this pattern. The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) operates the region's mass transit services (bus, streetcar, and rapid transit lines) and the contracts for the operation of its commuter railroad services. The study examines the dilemma of whether and how Boston can maintain transit ridership while controlling or reducing the MBTA's deficit. The analysis focuses primarily on the bus, streetcar and rapid transit services operated directly by the MBTA rather than the commuter rail services operated under contract to the MBTA.
Hard Choices: Boston's Transit Deficits and Ridership
1994
163 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
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