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A $6 Billion Shortfall Has US Mass Transit Facing a Death Spiral (www.bloomberg.com)

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[–] wjs018@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

The MBTA also needs at least an estimated $24.5 billion to bring its infrastructure to a state of good repair.

I knew that the MBTA had built up a huge pile of deferred maintenance on its infrastructure due to past funding shortfalls, but this is enormous. I commute to work every day via the T (commuter rail to red line), and it hasn't been too bad lately. However, I no longer live downtown, so I don't really use the system much beyond my commute these days.