{"id":692,"date":"2012-03-13T14:38:12","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T18:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/?p=692"},"modified":"2012-03-13T16:55:16","modified_gmt":"2012-03-13T20:55:16","slug":"round-of-mbta-hearings-over-another-plan-in-the-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/?p=692","title":{"rendered":"Round of MBTA hearings over, another plan in the works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/yourtown\/news\/allston_brighton\/2012\/03\/t_wraps_up_hearings_on_propose.html\" title=\"Boston.com: Brighton MBTA hearing\" target=\"_blank\">hearing<\/a> was attended by about 200 people, with more than 30 speaking against the cuts and fare increases (There were more, but I left after I spoke, at #29).  It was a mix of people who seem to have made the rounds to many of the hearings and local residents, along with local State Senator Will Brownsberger and State Representatives Kevin Honan and Michael Moran.  It received <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/yourtown\/news\/allston_brighton\/2012\/03\/t_wraps_up_hearings_on_propose.html\" title=\"NECN: MBTA Brighton hearing\" target=\"_blank\">additional coverage<\/a> on NECN.  Neither of the T&#8217;s proposal&#8217;s got any support, and it looks like they are looking to develop alternatives, if you read to the end of the Boston.com story above.  Whatever plan they devise, it will likely only resolve the system&#8217;s budget woes for the short-term, given its heavy debt load and the increasing demand on its service.<\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"\">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-text=\"Round of MBTA hearings over, another plan in the works\" data-url=\"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/?p=692\" >Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night&#8217;s hearing was attended by about 200 people, with more than 30 speaking against the cuts and fare increases (There were more, but I left after I spoke, at #29). It was a mix of people who seem to have made the rounds to many of the hearings and local residents, along with local [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,4],"tags":[294,287],"class_list":["post-692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brighton","category-mbta","tag-brighton","tag-mbta"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":707,"href":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions\/707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abnewsflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}