Gov. Charlie Baker planned on Monday to personally appeal to members of the legislature’s Transportation Committee to pass his bill putting the MBTA under a fiscal control board and authorizing other reforms aimed at fixing the agency.
The governor was to get an assist Monday morning from businesses that lost revenues due to public transit system failures this winter as they planned a press conference to highlight the system’s problems and call for the adoption of task force’s recent recommendations that formed the basis of Baker’s bill.
Representatives from 25 business groups were scheduled to gather at the offices of Associated Industries of Massachusetts late Monday morning, two hours before the transportation panel holds its first hearing on the bill, which Baker said he would like to see passed by the summer break.
