With MBTA Fare Hikes Looming, Passengers Remain in Furious Denial

With MBTA Fare Hikes Looming, Passengers Remain in Furious Denial. Unmoved by the MBTA’s crippling $8 billion debt and the fact that we still pay less than other cities’ transit riders (see: Chicago, New York, D.C., and Philly), MBTA riders are frothing at the mouth over the organization’s latest fare hike warnings. “’A fare increase is just not fair,’” Gwen Vincent, an unemployed Dorchester teacher and T Riders Union member, told the MBTA’s board of directors yesterday. ‘We’re talking about people’s livelihoods.’” We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: T is for Trouble. [Herald]