Patrick Visits Medford MBTA Facilities
Governor has made transportation funding a key part of his agenda.
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Gov. Deval Patrick visited two of Medford's Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) facilities Wednesday in an effort to highlight his push for transportation funding.
Patrick visited the MBTA Fellsway bus garage at 465 Salem St. and then the Wellington Station maintenance garage, where numerous Orange Line trains were being serviced.
"There's a tremendous amount of consensus, in and out of the Statehouse...that it's time for re-investment in our transportation infrastructure," Patrick told reporters at Wellington.
When asked if the figure of $800 million that's been floated recently would be sufficient, Patrick said it would be a "mistake" to start with a number and work backwards.
"So far, the only plan on the table is mine," he said.
Patrick visited the facilities with Medford Rep. Paul Donato and Massachusetts Transportation Secretary Richard Davey. Medford Mayor Michael McGlynn accompanied the governor at the Fellsway bus garage.
The bus garage is a location Donato and McGlynn would like to see moved, potentially to Wellington, and re-developed. Davey estimated such a project would cost around $100 million and Donato suggested it be part of the governor's transportation bond issue.
At Wellington, Patrick toured the work that happens in the T maintenance garage with Joe Keeffe, the MBTA's senior director of vehicle maintenance.
Watch the video to the right for more from Patrick's visit.
Suzanne
1:07 pm on Wednesday, March 13, 2013
What a joke this little man is. How much are they paying the new GM of the T that bankrupt the last one she ran?
OURSTATEPARKS
11:32 am on Thursday, March 14, 2013
It will be a glorious day when Deval Patrick (and all his
appointees) are gone from our state, so that we can begin the hard work of
undoing all his wasteful failed initiatives that have sucked the life out of the basic necessities that government should humbly provide - provide, not just for
the “at risk”, “ under-served”, “under-represented” & so-called
"nonprofits" that leach off taxpayers, but for representing hard working
resident taxpayers that already have 40% taken from their paychecks. We will
take back our state so we can set right and fund what we have known to be the
basic & important needs that have kept our quality of life here in
Massachusetts intact for generations prior to the arrival of this oligarchy that is bankrupting the state.
..and by the way, what happened to all that stimulus money
that was also for transportation and schools?? POOF!! Gone!! impuestos no más!!!
OURSTATEPARKS
12:06 pm on Thursday, March 14, 2013
Way back In 2008, the MBTA bought 75 new commuter rail cars from Korean-based Hyundai Rotem, in 2013, the MBTA is still waiting for the cars to be delivered.
patrick has done such a good job...we really should give him more of our hard earned money.
Sean
12:23 pm on Friday, March 15, 2013
He should be impeached.