Eng appointed Ryan Coholan, former chief railroad officer of the MBTA, as the new chief operating officer of the agency.
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The MBTA spent big to attract a new general manager. With a $470,000 base salary, Eng will be one of the top-paid transit agency chiefs in the country.
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (abbreviated MBTA and known colloquially as the T) is the public agency responsible for operating most public transportation services in Greater Boston, Massachusetts.
Charlie on the MTAharlie on the MTA was written as a campaign song for Mayoral candidate Walter A. O'Brien, Jr. in 1949. It tells the story of a subway rider named Charlie, stuck on an endless train ride underneath the streets of Boston because he was unable to pay the exit fare.
The MBTA's finances have been in trouble for many years. In 2004 the MBTA Advisory Board budget report warned that the “threat to the operating budget and to the long-term fiscal solvency of the Authority is the tremendous debt load that the MBTA currently bears.
The MBTA offers a wide variety of career and growth opportunities, competitive salaries, extensive healthcare benefits, training programs, tuition assistance, employee assistance programs, diversity, equity, and inclusion events, and more.
PUBLISHED: March 25, 2023 at 4:14 p.m. | UPDATED: March 25, 2023 at 4:16 p.m. The MBTA agreed to a more generous pension agreement with its largest union, to bolster hiring efforts and retain employees at the struggling agency.
This shutdown will allow crews to replace rail, ties, and ballast to improve reliability and reduce maintenance needs. Without the shutdown, the T said that work would have taken six months to complete.
The MBTA's General Manager Phil Eng says problems with the new Green Line Extension are more extensive than first thought. The tracks' prefabricated ties were built with the rail gauge too narrow and will have to be repaired. According to Eng, the problem was identified as far back as April 2021.
Originally established as an individual department within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the MBTA became a division of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) in 2009.