One year ago | By Boston Herald
It's been a bad year for state transportation agencies.
And a worse one for commuters and taxpayers.
On the heels of a scathing audit of the Registry of Motor Vehicles, which revealed that the Merit Rating Board stopped processing out-of-state driver violation alerts and stored them in 53 bins for more than a year, comes Monday's safety panel review of the MBTA.
All that's missing are the bins.
In the report from the panel consisting of former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood, former acting administrator of the Federal Transit Administration Carolyn Flowers and former New York...
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