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Feds hand MBTA safety oversight back to state
The federal government has returned safety oversight of the MBTA back to the state after years of supervision.
Gov. Maura Healey called the move “major new milestone” which restores the Department of Public Utilities direct oversight of the T’s safety equipment and management.
The Federal Transportation Administration placed the DPU’s Rail and Transit Safety Division under a series of directives in 2022 following a series of safety incidents including a fire and death on the transit system.
“Today, the T is safer, more reliable, and more affordable for the riders who use it every day," Healey said in a statement. "Riders can now have confidence that there are dedicated leaders at both the MBTA and DPU working every day to keep them safe.”
According to Healey's office, the FTA returned the direct safety responsibility to the state on Sept. 11.
State Sen. Brendan Crighton, co-chair of the legislature’s Joint Committee on Transportation called the state’s restoration of safety oversight “a really big deal.”
“ I commend the Healey-Driscoll administration, as well as [interim Transportation Secretary Phil] Eng, the entire MBTA, as well as DPU for, you know, rolling up their sleeves and putting in the hard work to meet the safety goals that had been laid out for us,” he said.
Getting to this point was a team effort and the legislature also “stepped up and provided the resources needed for the T to tackle some of the safety issues they were dealing with regards to, you know, specific stations and equipment but certainly, workforce challenges as well,” Crighton said.
Advocates like MBTA Advisory Board executive director Brian Kane said having the state regain oversight of the T’s safety is a good thing, but he's “not sure it's something we should be proud of.”
“ The fact that we lost it was an embarrassment,” he said before going on to say, “ we should be pleased that we are now doing the right thing according to the feds, that the state is in a position to be given back the reins for the oversight of its own system. This is a good thing. It's a positive thing. But I'm not sure it's a reason to really celebrate.”
Kane said the federal government stepping back from overseeing safety on the T should give riders “that peace of mind that we as riders can now have enhanced trust that the system we're on has been inspected, not just by the T, but by somebody else, and that it's been inspected to a standard that is not just the T standard, it's the federal standard.”
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