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MBTA board to get spending blueprint

Plan to provide clearer picture of cuts, fare hikes

By Eric Moskowitz

 |  Globe Staff  

  February 29, 2012

MBTA administrators said yesterday they plan to present the T board with a spending blueprint March 14 that will provide riders with the clearest sense yet of how much fares will rise and how deeply service will be cut. Financial numbers show just how constrained the T is by billions in debt it inherited from the Legislature in 2000 and by other costs largely outside its control, such as fuel and federally mandated door-to-door service for the disabled.

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