November 3, 2009
Adam Ragusea, WBUR's Radio Boston

"There are some very big, very controversial choices about transportation financing on the horizon. Apart from the legislature, this new MassDOT (with its new board) is the venue in which those choices will be debated and the decisions implemented.

"Should pike tolls continue to help pay for Big Dig tunnels that many pike commuters never use? (Some vocal folks think not.) Should we toll I-93? Should we raise the gas tax to help pay for the MBTA’s crushing debt?"

This episode of Radio Boston highlights the new Massachusetts Department of Transportation, which absorbed the MBTA at the beginning of November.

Listen to the show here.

TRU Organizer Lee Matsueda shares his thoughts from 17:55 to 20:02 in the 50 minute show.