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MBTA crisis can’t be ignored; time to tackle ‘Big Dig culture’

  March 16, 2012

State Transportation Secretary Richard Davey can’t solve the MBTA’s financial woes on his own, and the Patrick administration should stop acting as if he can. In his State of the State speech earlier this year, Patrick conspicuously avoided mentioning the transit agency’s looming deficit, now estimated at $159 million. Instead, it’s Davey, the former T general manager whom Patrick tapped to run the state transportation department last year, who’s been out front in the public discussion on scaling back services and raising fares.

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