What a kidder! Massport announced today it's hired Davey, formerly of the MBTA, MassDOT and, shh, Boston 2024, but more recently of the New York City subway and bus system, to oversee its airports and port operations. Massport will pay Davey $420,000 a year, and he's supposed to start Sept. 9. The announcement comes two weeks after Davey declined interest in becoming a Bostonian again.
UPDATE: Boston 2024 says it will release its new plan at 10 a.m. on Monday.
We'll have to wait until next week to hear any new information about the financials for the proposed 2024 Olympics. The City Council Special Committee on the 2024 Olympics held a hearing today about venue selection and financing but it didn't get many answers. Read more.
And that's just to pay for day to day operations, never mind replacing rustbucket trains on the Red and Orange Line, Rich Davey, our new statewide transportation czar, tells the Globe.
Channel 5 tweets that MBTA General Manager Rich Davey will replace state Transportation Department Secretary Jeff Mullan next month. As head of MassDOT, Davey will assume responsibility for highways across the state, including the turnpike and the ever popular Big Dig.
Don't worry: They'll be painted silver and purple.
MBTA General Manager Rich Davey was in Korea this week, touring the Hyundai-Rotem plant in Changwon, which is building four test coaches for the MBTA. The T reports Davey paid his own way.
The T has a $190-million contract with the company for 75 of the double-decker cars, some of which are expected to begin rolling on local rails in December for testing, with the rest slated for delivery between next summer and the winter of 2013. Aside from the four test coaches, all will be built in a Hyundai-Rotem factory in Philadelphia - which, with any luck, will have solved the labor and manufacturing problems it's now having with coaches meant for the Philadelphia equivalent of the MBTA.
Picture this with seats and lights and windows. Photo by Rich Davey.
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