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Speaker 1: Let's rally.

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Speaker 2: On boarded signs galore from the fifty five bus route

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Speaker 2: coalition asking for pre pandemic expanded hours that never came back.

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Speaker 3: You know, we've been working.

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Speaker 1: For you several years, first to make sure the MVTA

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Speaker 1: didn't cancel the fifty five bus and have agreed to that,

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Speaker 1: and then get them to expand the hours. And the

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Speaker 1: MBTA has agreed to expand the hours, they just haven't

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Speaker 1: done it. Yesterday.

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Speaker 3: Rep.

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Speaker 2: Jay Livingstone shows support. Many of the folks rallying are

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Speaker 2: disabled or elderly. They tell me they'd like for the

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Speaker 2: bus to operate until seven instead of closing at four

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Speaker 2: pm and missing the rush.

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Speaker 3: Hour, so people coming from museums or people going eating

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Speaker 3: or even.

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Speaker 4: Red Sox games, they at least have the bus. Plus

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Speaker 4: it's actually very safe.

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Speaker 2: And the statement the t says the route fifty five

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Speaker 2: has very low ridership, but they are planning to expand

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Speaker 2: the hours, though there's no timeline in store yet. At

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Speaker 2: Park Plaza, Jay will let WBZ Bostin's News Radio