MBTA Transit Police Launch See Say Smartphone App - Crowdsourcing Public Safety - PR.com (press release)


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MBTA Transit Police Launch See Say Smartphone App - Crowdsourcing Public Safety
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See Say app empowers riders to quickly, discretely report criminal or suspicious activities on the MBTA to Transit Police. Boston, MA, May 23, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Today, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) Transit Police Department ...
MBTA announces release of See Say smartphone app NECN
See something? Report it with new app WCVB Boston

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Disabled MBTA riders protest cuts, fare hikes - Worcester Telegram

Disabled MBTA riders protest cuts, fare hikes
Worcester Telegram
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority board voted in April to raise fares an average 23 percent along with some service cuts to help close a nearly $160 million deficit facing the Boston-area transit system. The hikes are steeper for users of ...

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A moving tribute - Worcester Telegram

A moving tribute
Worcester Telegram
(T&G Staff/TOM RETTIG) By Bronislaus B. Kush TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF WORCESTER — The MBTA's Memorial Train made its inaugural run yesterday from Boston's South Station to Worcester's Union Station in a tribute to the 136 Bay State servicemen who lost ...

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Full cellphone reception expected for T subway by year's end - Boston.com


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Full cellphone reception expected for T subway by year's end
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All underground portions of the MBTA subway system should be fully wired for cellphone reception by the end of the year, the company designing and installing the network predicted. But many T riders may have to wait longer before they can talk, text, ...

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How MBTA Cuts, Fare Hikes Could Impact Health - BU Today


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How MBTA Cuts, Fare Hikes Could Impact Health
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Earlier this year, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority proposed deep service cuts and fare hikes, prompting widespread opposition from residents who rely on public transportation. And the time frame for expressions of public opinion was a ...

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Lawmakers also propose plan for cash-strapped T - Boston Globe

Lawmakers also propose plan for cash-strapped T
Boston Globe
By Eric Moskowitz Massachusetts lawmakers advanced a plan Thursday to dip into a little-known state account to help balance the MBTA budget, avoiding even steeper fare hikes than those approved by the T board last month. While most of the $51 million ...
MBTA bailout bill advances on Beacon Hill Boston Business Journal (blog)

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MBTA will keep night and weekend runs into Providence - The Providence Journal

MBTA will keep night and weekend runs into Providence
The Providence Journal
Stephen Devine, chief of intermodal planning for the state Department of Transportation, said his office was notified recently that despite financial problems, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority decided not to cut those runs.

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MBTA To Test Bio-Terror Responses With Tunnel Bacteria - WCVB-TV


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MBTA To Test Bio-Terror Responses With Tunnel Bacteria
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BOSTON -- A new plan to tackle bio-terror threats will be tested on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. The Department of Homeland Security is planning to unleash food-safe bacterium at subway station tunnels in Cambridge and Somerville ...
MBTA, DHS to test bioterrorism sensors Progressive Rail Roading
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Person fatally struck by train near Norwood station - Boston.com

Person fatally struck by train near Norwood station
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By Natalie Feulner, Town Correspondent A 27-year-old Norwood man was struck by a Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority commuter rail train and killed early Tuesday morning about a quarter-mile east of the Windsor Gardens train station in Norwood ...

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The Present and Future of the Wayland Rail Trail - Patch.com

The Present and Future of the Wayland Rail Trail
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The DCR assumed responsibility from the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, who owns the land, and, Kiernan said, the ultimate goal is to create a 12-foot wide paved path along those 26 miles. “The problem is, no money,” Kiernan said.

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