Healey administration unveils $8 billion, 10-year plan to stabilize Massachusetts transportation

Governor Maura Healey announced a plan to invest $8 billion over the next 10 years to stabilize and upgrade transportation across Massachusetts, speaking at Union Station in Worcester at a public event where the administration released the Transportation Funding Task Force report.

The announcement, the administration said, centers on maximizing newly available "fair share" tax revenues, deploying federal matching funds and borrowing against a dedicated transportation fund to pay for state and municipal roads, bridges, rail and transit. "This plan launches a new era in Massachusetts of sound management, sound vision, and great transportation for Massachusetts," Governor Maura Healey said.

The nut graf: The Healy-Driscoll administration presented a package of budget proposals it said would immediately raise operating support for the MBTA, fund capital projects statewide, and increase municipal road funding under Chapter 90. Officials described the package as a mix of transfers, borrowing and supplemental spending that requires further legislative action to implement.

Administration officials said the plan includes several specific steps. Matt Gorkowitz, secretary of administration and finance, said the administration will transfer $765,000,000 of fair share revenue…