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Citing boost from stimulus funds, T reverses course on service cuts


By Chris Lisinski, State House News Service
April 1, 2021
Chris Lisinski, State House News Service
After resisting calls to change course for months, the MBTA embarked on a mission Monday to reverse service cuts across all modes in the coming months by using hundreds of millions of dollars in emergency federal aid.
The T’s Fiscal and Management Control Board voted to restore subway and bus service to pre-pandemic levels, resume weekend commuter rail service on lines where it was suspended, and begin running ferries again, all with an unspecified but urgent timeline of “as soon as possible.”
MBTA General Manager Steve Poftak said at the board’s meeting that the agency expects to receive at least $845 million from the American Rescue Plan – on top of the $1.1 billion the T received in prior federal stimulus packages – putting it in “a much different landscape” than when T officials planned and approved the unpopular service cuts. ....

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