Published: Thu, 5 Nov 2009
Description: (NECN: Alysha Palumbo, Boston, Mass.) - MBTA fare increases are on hold after a scathing report about the safety of the agency. Governor Deval Patrick wants a review of the T, but said riders should feel safe. David D'Alessandro, former...
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" Report about the safety of the MBTA. In Greater Boston Governor Deval Patrick wants some action and some further review of the team but says in the meantime if you ride the T. You should feel safe and -- Alicia Colombo is live along the Red Line in Cambridge with more Alicia good morning."
" Good morning night in the report on Thursday the report's author actually says the exact opposite another report highlights some serious safety issues here at the Red Line. So serious that the author says he will actually not ride through these sections until it's fixed. As thousands of commuters depend on the TD get to work or school every day a scathing report on serious safety issues may have been thinking twice before they go through the turnstile. It is clear. Barry is a great problem from a safety standpoint the report's author former John Hancock chair David Ellis Andris spoke with Jim -- yesterday about the report they deet -- 51 projects that have been neglected over the years. Classified as they quote danger to life and -- of passengers and or employees."
" There is a lot of work that must versus being done. To regain the public's confidence in this system. And that has to be done by stepping up. The level of service the reliability. Of service. And assuring ourselves that we have the safety investments in the right priorities. Before we go to the public for any -- things but."
" The constant fixed all the problems would be more than 540 million dollars it is clear that the reliability issues of the T."
" There's wide -- my regulate or white busses break down. Is this more because. Of the lack of funding."
" Than any other issue one of the biggest problems highlighted in there reported on the Red Line where water leaks have corroded the concrete slabs and fasteners causing the tracks to move out of alignment between the L white and Harvard stations."
" They say there's a possibility of derailment. And they say that the deterioration of these tracks Israel I would not rot ride that section the Red Line until I was assured. That the -- said the governor disagrees. I want to assure the traveling public that the system is safe for writers. And that the good people of the team will read commit to keeping itself."
" says that the project actually sixty alignment problems here on the Red Line any underlying problem of those water that has been proposed for the past. Three years but still has not happened that project alone could cost eighty million dollars might. And that's a big amount of money who's gonna pay for it. Well yesterday in a press conference we heard the governor say he will not be increasing fares on commuters that we should not seat any increases here at the T on the -- anything like that in the near future. Until those at the safety issues are dealt with so we'll have to just keep -- accountable to that. Okay all right Lucia thanks --"