October 26, 2011
The Boston Globe
The report from MassINC proposes a regional payroll tax and a tax on miles driven to supplement or replace the T’s current reliance on a portion of the statewide sales tax, and to better support the regional transit in cities such as Springfield, Worcester, and Brockton that are even more threadbare than the MBTA.
“The chorus is increasingly calling louder that we’re approaching the threshold after which it’s really too late,’’ said Benjamin Forman, MassINC’s research director and lead author of the “Moving Forward with Funding’’ report. “If the MBTA doesn’t get the cars it needs, if it doesn’t make the signal replacements - all those things take time. In the meantime it gets worse and worse.’’