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*ABBREVIATED “MBTA”*
*KNOWN COLLOQUIALLY AS “THE ‘T’*
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-‘MBTA’ is the ‘public agency’ responsible for operating most ‘public transportation services’ in ‘greater boston’ / ‘massachusetts’-
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(earlier modes of ‘public transportation’ in ‘boston’ were independently owned + operated; many were first folded into a ‘single agency’ with the formation of the ‘metropolitan transit authority’ (or ‘MTA’) in ‘1947’)
(the ‘MTA’ was replaced in ‘1964’ with the present-day ‘MBTA’, which was established as an ‘individual department’ within the ‘commonwealth of massachusetts’ before becoming a division of the ‘massachusetts department of transportation’ (or ‘MassDOT’) in ‘2009’)
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(the ‘MBTA’ and philadelphia’s ‘southeastern pennsylvania transportation authority’ (or ‘SEPTA’) are the only ‘US transit agencies’ that operate all 5 major types of ‘terrestrial mass transit vehicles’) –>
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‘light rail vehicles’
(the ‘ashmont–mattapan ‘high speed’ and ‘green’ lines’)
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‘heavy rail trains’
(the ‘blue’, ‘orange’, and ‘red’ lines)
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‘regional rail trains’
(the ‘commuter rail’)
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‘electric trolleybuses’
(the ‘silver line’)
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‘motor buses’
(‘MBTA bus’)
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(in ‘2016’, the system averaged ‘1,277,200 passengers’ per ‘weekday’, of which ‘heavy rail’ averaged ‘552,500’ and the ‘light-rail lines’ ‘226,500’, making it the ‘4th-busiest subway system’ and the ‘busiest light rail system’ in the ‘united states’)
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(the MBTA is the largest consumer of electricity in ‘massachusetts’, and the 2nd-largest land owner)
(after the *department of ‘conservation’ + ‘recreation’*)
(in ‘2007’, its ‘CNG bus fleet’ was the largest consumer of ‘alternative fuels’ in the ‘state’)
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(the ‘MBTA’ operates an ‘independent law enforcement agency’, the ‘massachusetts bay transportation authority police’)
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*👨🔬🕵️♀️🙇♀️*SKETCHES*🙇♂️👩🔬🕵️♂️*
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