Mass. transportation secretary gives ‘unfiltered’ take on challenges
Tibbits-Nutt looking at many revenue options, including border tolls
Massachusetts Secretary of Transportation Monica Tibbits-Nutt weighed in on a series of major policy issues in a recent talk with the advocacy group Walk Massachusetts, including one subject that may make her very unpopular in Rhode Island. (Screenshot/walkmass.org/)
State Transportation Secretary Monica Tibbits-Nutt promised an “unfiltered me” in an address to the advocacy group Walk Massachusetts last week – and she followed through on her pledge.
Using frank language rarely heard on Beacon Hill, Tibbits-Nutt weighed in on a series of major policy issues. She talked about how she would raise more money for transportation, with one option being the installation of toll gantries at the state’s borders with neighboring states. She promised to do more to address traffic fatalities by urging law enforcement to issue more speeding citations. And she said she would not support a layover facility for commuter rail trains as part of the I-90 Allston multimodal project, handing neighborhood activists a major victory.
