Massachusetts
Big Dig megamismanager Michael P Lewis gets Turnpike golden handshake & RI transp sec
Posted Sat, 2008-04-05 20:27Who says crime doesn't pay. Michael P Lewis, 46, the Massachusetts Turnpike's Big Dig manager through serial scandals, multi-billion dollar cost overruns, shoddy construction, and a fatal ceiling collapse, 2000 to 2007 - the biggest public works management fiasco in America in modern times - the manager of this megamess is now on a Turnpike pension for life of $72,578 plus 80% health insurance, the Boston Globe reports. 335 words read more »
Mass Turnpike board united on toll increase but divided on allocation (UPDATE)
Posted Tue, 2007-10-30 19:23
The Massachusetts Turnpike Authority board, united on the need to garner an extra $28m in revenue on the metropolitan system divided sharply, Monday, over how to distribute the increases as between the Turnpike Boston-MA128 and the harbor tunnels, and on whether to encourage an increase in transponder use. 702 words read more »
Massachusetts Senate leader comes out for look at privatization of Turnpike
Posted Thu, 2007-10-25 13:27
Therese Murray president of the Massachusetts Senate and a Democrat says the state needs to look closely at the merits of sale or concession of the Massachusetts Turnpike. She was reported saying this after a chamber of commerce speech by the Boston Herald which quotes her:
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Merger mania in Massachusetts - Turnpike being studied for absorption into a super authority
Posted Wed, 2007-10-03 18:18Local reports are that the new Patrick administration in Massachusetts
is considering a plan to merge the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority
into a new super transportation authority to be called the
Massachusetts Transportation Authority (MTA). The new MTA - Mass Turnpike Authority is also MTA! - would include:
- the tax funded Mass Highway Department and certain roads and bridges now operated by a department of conservation
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Massachusetts Transportation Authority (MTA). The new MTA - Mass Turnpike Authority is also MTA! - would include:- the tax funded Mass Highway Department and certain roads and bridges now operated by a department of conservation
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Massachusetts officials look for new toll revenues & will consider concessions
Posted Wed, 2007-09-12 19:22
Massachusetts officials are looking at a variety of measures to generate more funds for transport, local reports say. The Boston Globe reports the chairman of the legislature's joint transportation committee Senator Steven Baddour (Dem) as saying that "everything needs to be on the table".
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Mass Turnpike Authority may be abolished to bring under state control
Posted Tue, 2007-05-29 17:20
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick says its impossible to have "a comprehensive transport strategy" with the Massachusetts Turnpike and other state transport agencies run by independent boards of directors. He is quoted in reports today: ""Right now, no governor could implement a comprehensive transportation strategy in Massachusetts. We have delegated that authority to four or five independent (agencies) and they don't even talk to each other."420 words read more »
Massachusetts' mismanagement of turnpike detailed
Posted Sun, 2007-04-01 10:28Plans to end tolls on the Massachusetts Turnpike are excoriated in a lengthy report of a transport finance commission (MTFC) set up by the state legislature. Sub-titled "An unsustainable system" the report says the Romney administration and its predecessors have left a shocking financial legacy of high cost but skimped maintenance even while going deeper into debt to cover current costs - a tale of the Big Dig writ large in widespread mismanagement of the state's highways. 1837 words read more »
