Who is the new chief of the MBTA?

A week into his new role as the MBTA's Chief of Stations, Dennis Varley walked through one of the Red Line's most troubled stations. He's tackling his first task: Cleaning up the JFK/UMass stop during a 16-day October shutdown while workers fix the tracks.



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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.

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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.

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Anna Duffy - Highway Deputy Chief of Staff - MassDOT | LinkedIn.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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As of Nov 6, 2023, the average annual pay for a Mbta in the United States is $109,617 a year. Just in case you need a simple salary calculator, that works out to be approximately $52.70 an hour. This is the equivalent of $2,108/week or $9,134/month.

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