BOSTON (WHDH) - State lawmakers are scheduled to hold a hearing Thursday on the safety of the MBTA.
The panel will determine whether the Department of Public Utilities should continue to serve as the watchdog over safety issues on the T. A federal report recently criticized the department’s handling of recent problems with MBTA service among various other system-wide problems.
“The combination of inadequate procedures and staffing and a safety culture where others look away when individuals do not follow basic safety rules create circumstances that result in unacceptable and entirely unavoidable incidents,” Federal Transit Authority spokesman Paul Kincaid said when the report was released in June. “We’ll be ordering both the MBTA and the DPU to address these critical safety issues immediately.”
The MBTA began safety upgrades in July following the scathing report.
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