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What’s more, the number of jobs in the state-and therefore the number of commutes-is steadily rising. For one thing, Massachusetts is expected to add 500,000 more residents during the next 20 years, a 7 percent increase from 2017. What’s more, the report cites a burden on the current transportation infrastructure that will grow heavier regardless of funding. Here’s a breakdown of that gap from the report. Instead, it paints a portrait of dire need and gnawing neglect, starting with the forecast of an $8.4 billion funding gap between 20.Ĭlosing that gap between what the state’s transportation funding needs are and what it will have on hand to spend is just the start, though, according to the report: “If we can close the financing gap presented here, we will have brought our system up to 20th century standards a quarter of the way through the 21st century.”

A group of Massachusetts business leaders called A Better City and the University of Massachusetts’ Donahue Institute is out with a new report on transportation funding in the state for everything from the T to tunnels to bridges.

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