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Boston and Cambridge are in talks to make the MBTA’s route 1 bus fare-free, Mayor Michelle Wu stated throughout a WBUR look Monday.
Talking on “Radio Boston,” Wu stated Boston is on the lookout for methods to broaden its fare-free bus program — which at the moment covers the 23, 28, and 29 bus routes — and is exploring partnerships with different municipalities.
“We’ve been working very intently with Cambridge,” Wu stated. “The 1 bus is such a well-used route. It additionally will get very a lot slowed down in site visitors, and so it might be certainly one of these examples the place we might doc and present the advantages of individuals having the ability to get on and experience without spending a dime, board on all doorways.”
She referred to as the bus route, which runs from Harvard Sq. in Cambridge to Nubian Sq. in Roxbury, “a key to the regional financial system.” The 1 bus is among the many MBTA’s hottest routes, Massachusetts Division of Transportation ridership knowledge reveals.
Boston’s conversations with Cambridge are “in progress,” Wu stated. “We’re not fairly there but, and this might contain the MBTA signing off, as effectively.”
Cambridge convened a Fare-Free Working Group final 12 months to discover a fare-free bus pilot and is engaged on a pilot program primarily based off of the group’s suggestions, Cambridge Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui advised the Boston Herald in March. Siddiqui confirmed the town is targeted on the 1 bus route, “a key connection between Cambridge and Boston serving a various inhabitants.”
Boston.com has reached out to Cambridge for touch upon its discussions with Boston about eliminating fares on the 1 bus.
Underneath Boston’s fare-free program, the town appropriated $8 million in federal pandemic aid funds to reimburse the MBTA for misplaced fares over two years. This system has proven some indicators of success on the one-year mark, with ridership on the fare-free routes rising as much as 3 times as quick as the remainder of the MBTA bus system, the town stated in a March report.
The state Legislature has not put aside direct funding for fare-free transit, although final 12 months’s transportation bond invoice permits the MBTA and Regional Transit Authorities to borrow $6.95 million for fare-free bus pilot applications, The Boston Globe reported.
On the nationwide degree, Sen. Ed Markey and Rep. Ayanna Pressley reintroduced laws on Monday to make extra buses fare-free by offering $5 billion per 12 months over 5 years to state and native governments contemplating fare-free transit applications.
Wu, who joined Pressley and Markey at a press convention saying the renewed push for the “Freedom to Transfer Act,” stated Boston has achieved operational efficiencies by not accumulating bus fares on some routes.
“It’s slowing down routes once we are asking individuals to queue up and discover their types of cost and all that,” she advised “Radio Boston” host Tiziana Dearing.
“Transit companies all over the place must rethink how they fund their companies,” Wu stated. “It’s not working, and the bit that comes from bus revenues is only a teeny tiny bit that in reality ought to go to creating it extra environment friendly.”
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A huge fourth quarter by Camryn Tade helped the Army West Point Black Knights women’s basketball team rally from a deficit to defeat Boston U, 59-52, on Saturday in Boston.
The Black Knights (13-3, 5-1 Patriot) have won two straight games since they fell to Lehigh a weekend ago and dropped from the ranks of the undefeated teams in the league.
Now, Army is tied for first place with both Navy and Holy Cross at 5-1 going into next week’s games. Lehigh is a half-game back at 4-1.
The Black Knights started the fourth quarter down 46-38. Tade came to the rescue, as she scored 11 of her 18 points in the final 10 minutes.
She got to work 40 seconds into the quarter with a 3-pointer that cut the lead to five points.
After several empty possessions, Tade struck again with another 3-pointer to push the Black Knights within two points, 46-44, with 7:30 left.
The Terriers remained in the lead as they and the Black Knights traded free throws before Army took the lead, thanks against to Tade. Her lay-up with 5:25 left put Army in the lead, 48-47.
From there, the Black Knights remained ahead. A Fiona Hastick lay-up pushed the lead to three points, followed by a 3-pointer by Tade with 3:32 left that made it 53-47 Army.
Boston (7-10, 1-5) never got any closer.
The Terriers controlled the game in the first half, as they took a 10-9 lead after the first quarter and then pushed that lead to 25-15 at halftime. Army surged to 23 points in the third quarter, but Boston hung in there by scoring 21 points before the Black Knights outscored the Terriers, 21-6, in the final stanza.
Tade made four 3-pointers for the game, three of which came in the fourth quarter. She also had seven rebounds and two blocked shots. Trinity Hardy led Army with 21 points, along with eight rebounds, one assist, one block and one steal.
Reese Ericson hit some key free throws down the stretch, as she went 6-fot-6 from the line for the game and finished with nine points. She also had four assists.
Inés Monteagudo led Boston with 12 points, while Allison Schwertner added 11 points.
Next week is critical for Army’s Patriot League Tournament seeding as it will face Holy Cross on Wednesday and Navy on Sunday. The Black Knights already have a loss to Lehigh, so they can ill-afford a loss to either the Crusaders or their rivals, the Midshipmen.
BOSTON (WHDH) – Authorities are investigating after a body was found in the water under a bridge in Boston.
Members of the Harbor Patrol Unit responded to the McArdle Bridge around 7:15 a.m. and found a body in the water.
Homicide detectives were requested and responded to the scene.
No additional information was immediately available.
This is a developing news story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest details.
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A prominent Boston-area doctor accused in several lawsuits of sexually assaulting more than 200 former patients was indicted by a grand jury on rape charges.
Dr. Derrick Todd allegedly assaulted two women during examinations in December 2022 and June 2023 at the Charles River Medical Associates in Framingham, Mass., the Middlesex County District Attorney announced Thursday.
Todd, a rheumatologist, appeared in Middlesex Superior Court Friday after he handed himself over to police the previous night.
The two women had either a pelvic exam or pap smear with the doctor when the alleged assault occurred, NBC Boston reported.
The patients alleged the exams went beyond “normal.”
One of the women endured enough pain for her to scream at Todd to stop but the doctor didn’t listen and continued the exam.
The second patient alleged she didn’t give Todd consent to perform the specific examination but the doctor went ahead despite the rejection, the outlet reported.
Todd pleaded not guilty to the two rape charges.
He was held on a $10,000 bail.
A judge ordered Todd to surrender his passport, not have any contact with his alleged victims, and give up all medical licenses.
Claims of abuse from Todd date back to 2010 but only surfaced in 2023 after Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital received anonymous complaints.
Todd is the former chief of clinical rheumatology at the Boston hospital but resigned after 14 years in 2023 when two other physicians questioned the appropriateness of pelvis exams for his rheumatology patients, the Boston Globe reported.
Over 200 of Todd’s former patients accused him of performing unnecessary pelvic floor therapy, breast examinations, testicular examinations, and rectal examinations.
The accusers include over 200 women and several men between teenagers and 60-year-olds.
Attorneys for 180 of the former patients say the two rape charges are just the start of the doctor’s legal battle.
“It’s just the beginning of the criminal case against Dr. Todd, but it does help validate the civil claims that Lubin & Meyer is pursuing on behalf of so many of his former patients,” Attorney William Thompson said. “Fundamentally, it’s about a doctor abusing his position. And taking advantage of patients who put their trust in him for his own personal sexual gratification.”
Todd voluntarily ceased his medical practice in Massachusetts in September 2023.
The announcement was made in a letter to the Board of Registration in Medicine.
The class-action lawsuit against Todd also listed the hospital as a defendant for allegedly knowing about the abuse and failing to stop it.
Todd was fired from the hospital in July 2024.
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