39 Facts About MBTA

The MTA was replaced in 1964 with the present-day MBTA, which was established as an individual department within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts before becoming a division of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation in 2009.

MBTA is the largest consumer of electricity in Massachusetts, and the second-largest land owner .

The MBTA operates an independent law enforcement agency, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Police.

MBTA assigned colors to its four rapid transit lines in 1965, and lettered the branches of the Green Line from north to south.

MBTA purchased bus routes in the outer suburbs to the north and south from the Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway in 1968.

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In 2016, the Town of Bourne voted to join the MBTA district, bringing the number of MBTA communities to 176.

The MBTA now had to live within this "forward funding" budget.

Since 1988, the MBTA has been the fastest expanding transit system in the country, even as Greater Boston has been one of the slowest growing metropolitan areas in the United States.

The next year, the MBTA started commuter rail service to the Greenbush section of Scituate, the third branch of the Old Colony service.

In February 2022, MBTA staff reported to the MBTA Board of Directors safety subcommittee that of 61 recommendations made by the Fiscal and Management Control Board in 2019, two-thirds were complete and one-third were on progress or on hold .

In June 2022, the MBTA announced a pilot program that will begin in August to place urine-detection sensors in four downtown Boston subway elevators.

In June 2020 in the aftermath of COVID-19 pandemic, the MBTA had begun providing real-time information on crowding.

The MBTA introduced countdown clocks in underground Green Line stations during 2015.

MBTA Commuter Rail system is a regional rail network that reaches from Boston into the suburbs of eastern Massachusetts.

In 1964, the MBTA was formed to subsidize the failing suburban railroad operations, with an eye towards converting many to extensions of the existing rapid transit system.

In September 2016, the MBTA announced that paratransit users would be able to get rides from Uber and Lyft.

Customers parking in MBTA-owned and operated lots with existing cash "honor boxes" can pay for parking online or via phone while in their cars or once they board a train, bus, or commuter boat.

From time to time the MBTA has made various agreements with companies that contribute to commuting options.

One company the MBTA selected was Zipcar; the MBTA provides Zipcar with a limited number of parking spaces at various subway stations throughout the system.

Traditionally, the MBTA has stopped running around 1 am each night, despite the fact that bars and clubs in most areas of Boston are open until 2 am.

An MBTA spokesperson has said, "with a 109-year-old system you have to be out there every night" to do necessary maintenance.

The MBTA did experiment with "Night Owl" substitute bus service from 2001 to 2005, but abandoned it because of insufficient ridership, citing a $7.

In early 2016, the MBTA decided that Late-Night service would be canceled because of lack of funding.

In 2018, the MBTA further tried "Early Morning and Late Night Bus Service Pilots".

MBTA has various fare structures for its various types of service.

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Since the 1980s, the MBTA has offered discounted monthly passes on all modes for the convenience of daily commuters and other frequent riders.

MBTA has periodically raised fares to match inflation and keep the system financially solvent.

MBTA operates "Inner Express" and "Outer Express" buses to suburbs outside the subway system.

In 2020, the MBTA started implementation of its "Fare Transformation" program, reducing cash-on-board and CharlieTicket prices to the CharlieTicket level.

May 2019 report found the MBTA had a maintenance backlog of approximately $10 billion, which it hopes to clear by 2032 by increasing spending on capital projects.

MBTA maintains its own 25-year capital planning document, called the Program for Mass Transportation, which is fiscally unconstrained.

In 2014, the MBTA announce it would purchase Diesel Multiple Unit self-propelled rail cars for the Fairmount Line with eventual expansion to five other lines to be known as the Indigo Line.

In 2015, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker signed new legislation creating a financial control board to oversee the MBTA, replacing the Massachusetts Department of Transportation's Board of Directors in the role of overseeing the transit authority.

Three of the five members of the MBTA FMCB were members of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation.

In return, the Advisory Board has veto power over the MBTA operating and capital budgets, including the power to reduce the overall amount.

MBTA is headquartered in the State Transportation Building in Boston, with the operations control center at 45 High Street.

The MBTA maintains its own police force, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Police, which has jurisdiction in MBTA facilities and vehicles.

The largest union of the MBTA is the Carmen's Union, representing bus and subway operators.

The song was still well known in 2006, when the MBTA named its new electronic farecards the "CharlieCard" and "CharlieTicket".