Public transit should be funded by regions that benefit - Patriot Ledger

In a recent report, the independent, nonpartisan think tank MassINC mapped out a strategy to support smart transportation spending based on what our economic competitors are doing successfully in other states – paying for transportation regionally with measures approved by voters at the ballot box.

Taxpayers living in the Berkshires, Springfield and the South Coast aren’t riding the T. They aren’t willing to pay for it, and they shouldn’t. Taking a regional approach to transportation could break the counterproductive East-West political impasse that leads to underinvestment both within Greater Boston and beyond Interstate 495.