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LaHood: Timing Perfect To Restart MBTA From "Ground Zero"

Chris Lisinski10/25/22 2:35 PM

Former U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood talks to members of the Legislature's Transportation Committee on Tuesday during the committee's third oversight hearing probing safety practices at the MBTA. [Sam Doran/SHNS]

Massachusetts lawmakers are weighing how to fix years of problems at the MBTA while state government stands on the threshold of a major change, and in the opinion of a former U.S. transportation secretary, they should use that timing as an opportunity to "think very seriously" about dismantling and reimagining the entire transit system.

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