MBTA faces highest deficit of any transit authority in the country - Fox 25 News

"It's hard to wrap our heads around it," stated Ben Forman, the research director at Mass Inc.- an independent think tank. He says the MBTA continues to borrow just to make ends meet. It's like someone opening a new credit card, only to make the minimum payment on an existing one. "The T has two problems. One is that it can't pay for it's normal cost every year, and the other is that it hasn't done the maintenance it needs," Forman says.