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...example, that five years after Sept. 11, MBTA police officers still don’t possess the adequate technology to communicate with local fire departments or ambulance services and will not be able to do so for at least 18 more months. In addition to better communications equipment, Barrios??€™ report calls for the hiring of 100 more MBTA police officers, for full-scale subway terrorism drills, and for better allocation of federal homeland security money to help local communities outside of Boston proper to secure their T infrastructure. All are necessary measures to improve the safety...
Officials from the MBTA have characterized Barrios??€™ report as overwrought, pointing out that the T is in the middle of a security initiative to upgrade its surveillance cameras, with 310 installed now and 200 more planned. But we remain unconvinced that enough has been done to make the Boston subway system as secure as it needs to be. We strongly support Barrios in his efforts to appropriate enough money to plug these holes...
...bill passed by the Senate, or the one sponsored by Wolf and Toomey. If the House bill passes, it will have to be signed into law by Romney. Calls last night to the governor’s press office were not returned. The Crimson has lobbied for Barrios??€™ legislation at the State House, and The Crimson’s president, William C. Marra ’07, said last night that the bill’s swift passage through the legislature and across the governor’s desk would benefit students at private universities statewide...
...longtime local politics observer Robert Winters said that Barrios??€™ withdrawal from the district attorney’s race “was his only choice. He had no chance against Gerry Leone...
...statement on Barrios??€™ withdrawal yesterday, Leone said: “I understand and appreciate his very personal decision to step away from this race. Senator Barrios has done many good things for the people of his district and of this state, and I look forward to working with him in the future on important issues of public safety and justice...