Finch wrote:It's the MBTA's own press release that says the new cars will be built in MA. Who knows who told them to publicize that, but this isn't a case of the Globe mixing something up. There's a message being put forward here.
If you read page 18 of this report putout by he Mass DOT, it details that they assume that the red/orange line cars and also new green line cars will be 100% state funded thus allowing them to be built in Massachusetts creating fabrication and assembly jobs for the local economy. So I am assuming that if Federal money was to be chipped in to help fund the order it would be safe to say they could be built anywhere in the US.
"Red & Orange Line Cars
$1.5 billion
Funds procurement of subway vehicles to replace the 43-year old Red Line vehicles and 31-year old Orange Line
vehicles, as well as improvements to tracks, signals, and systems. At the end of this project, the Red and Orange Lines
will have twenty-first century vehicles, fewer delays, and improved reliability. This assumes that the program is 100%
state funded to allow the fabrication and assembly of the cars in the Commonwealth, creating jobs."
"The Way Forward:
A 21st - Century
Transportation Plan"
http://www.massdot.state.ma.us/Portals/ ... _Jan13.pdf