The MBTA has a nearly $1 billion contract with a Chinese rail manufacturer to build 404 new cars to replace the entire fleet of aging Red and Orange line trains. But repeated delays, including stoppages during the early days of the pandemic, have put the project well behind schedule.
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U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton: We re moving these projects forward in the process to deliver on some of my top goals: easing traffic, giving people more freedom and options to move about beyond cars, and addressing the chronic lack of mental health care. (Shutterstock)
BEVERLY, MA Mental health support, as well as public and alternative transportation and infrastructure programs, were among the 17 North Shore projects nominated for up to $40 million in federal funds.
U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Salem) released his list of appropriation nominations for the state s 6th Congressional District on Friday.
Moulton s office said the project requests are divided into two types: Community Project Funding, which are projects that he sent to the House Committee on Appropriations, and Member Designated Projects, which are sent to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
Johnny Cash used to sing that he could “hear the train a’comin” and now those living near – even not so near – the South Coast Rail construction sites are finding themselves singing the same tune.
Some on social media believed the horns are being heard further away from the tracks because of trees that have been cleared along tracks and right of ways where equipment is being brought in for the massive commuter rail construction project.
However, Joe Pesturo, communications director at the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, said he doesn’t believe that s why more residents are hearing the train horns.
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