Leaders Push for Transportation Projects, Spending [VIDEOS]
Transportation improvements are necessary to keep the economy growing, North Shore government leaders and businesspeople said at a forum this week.
North Shore leaders at the state and local level laid out the need for increased transportation spending this week, arguing that work will never cost less than it does now and continued improvements will help boost the economy. The forum, held at the Old Town Hall in Salem, was organized by the Metropolitan Area Planning Council. In addition to a panel that included MBTA General Manager Beverly Scott and state Registrar of Motor Vehicles Rachel Kaprielian, about 100 people looked on from the audience. "Can we make the case we need to do something about transportation?" asked state Senator Tom McGee, D-Lynn, chairman of the Legislature's transportation committee. Salem Mayor Kimberley Driscoll said it is important that cities like Salem …
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Thomas J Burke
9:28 am on Thursday, February 28, 2013
We need transportation. But the Chinese have taken the railroad tracks. Below dumb people who are anti-American without knowing it helped them dismantle future train travel. more ›