By Chris Lisinski, State House News Service, Worcester Telegram; October 28, 2019
BOSTON – Two elected officials and two transportation advocates who studied potential commuter rail changes endorsed a $28.9 billion plan on Monday to transform the system, setting up a key decision for the MBTA — and the Legislature that would foot the bill — on how to proceed.
The 22-person Rail Vision Advisory Committee did not, as a body, outright endorse any one of the six options it studied for more than a year. But in a presentation to T officials on Monday, four members explicitly backed the most substantial alternative on the table, collectively referred to as a full transformation, and several others offered support for most of the broad changes that plan includes.