The Transportation Finance Commission, a panel the state called on to review the state's transportation system, says Massachusetts is facing a maintenance deficit of a billion dollars a year over the next two decades.
Some experts say that deficit is insurmountable. Others call for bold solutions.
WBUR’s Meghna Chakrabarti looks into two specific examples – a poetic old Boston bridge, and broken Springfield roads – to illuminate the impact the transportation funding gap is having on life in Massachusetts.
Meghna Chakrabarti explains
this series:
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