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Report spotlights MBTA financial woes

By Eric Moskowitz

 |  Globe Staff  

  October 26, 2011

Over the last three decades, an expanding MBTA grew into the fifth-busiest transit system in the country and kept the region’s economy pumping, as income in Greater Boston rose nearly twice as fast as in other metro areas. But Beacon Hill did not return the favor to the T, sapping it of its ability to maintain the vehicles and infrastructure that now move nearly 1.3 million riders a day, and threatening its reliability. A pair of new reports and a MassINC forum focus more attention on the state’s transportation-funding crisis.

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