{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://moulton.house.gov/news/press-releases/moulton-statement-mbtas-245-billion-state-good-repair-backlog", "Moulton Statement on MBTA's $24.5 Billion State of Good Repair Backlog", "2023-11-16", "2023", "2023-11", "Democrat", "House", "MA", "Seth Moulton", "M001196", "moulton.house.gov", "moulton", "https://moulton.house.gov/news/press-releases", "scraper", "\"Today\u2019s announcement by the MBTA is the honest assessment we\u2019ve been waiting for. I thank General Manager Eng for the transparency he\u2019s brought to the T, and I'm confident that he and our new Transportation Secretary are up to this big challenge.\n\n$24.5 billion is a big number, but it\u2019s not shocking given the accumulation of decades of under-investment. Compare that to the $64.1 billion we spend every single year to subsidize driving in Massachusetts, costing each family $14,000 a year. Investing in the MBTA is investing in the future, and it\u2019s critical that restoring \u201cstate of good repair\u201d means modern standards, not the century-old standards of slow trains, inadequate and unpleasant stations, and no-faster-than-driving travel times we\u2019ve grown used to.\n\nWhile other transit agencies are building automated rail with fast trains every minute, we've let ours erode to the point that it's faster to walk in some places. How do we expect to reduce our terrible traffic if you can't even trust your train to not derail or catch fire? Last year, I called for a fundamental change in how the T functions as an organization. This is yet another wake-up call. If major changes are not made, we'll be dealing with the exact same, or worse, issues for years to come. Whether you use the T or not, every one of us in Massachusetts suffers from having a transit system we can\u2019t trust.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T01:01:09Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://moulton.house.gov/news/press-releases/moulton-statement-mbtas-245-billion-state-good-repair-backlog"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8999030105769634, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}