Dedham MBTA Parking Rates Going Down

DEDHAM, MA — Dedham commuters should consider themselves lucky, their parking fees are going down.

Under the new pay structure, to go into effect Aug. 1, parking at Dedham Corporate will go down from $4 to $2. Dedham is one of 21 parking facilities where the $2 decrease will occur. No changes have been announced for Endicott.

At 46 T parking facilities, prices will remain the same. At every parking facility except Sullivan Square, the cost of parking on the weekends will drop from its current level. Weekday prices will rise from $7 to $10 at three garages - Alewife, Braintree and Quincy Adams - and prices will rise to $9 or below at 29 other stations.

As part of its roughly $2 billion budget approved in April, the MBTA Fiscal and Management Control Board planned to boost parking revenues by $7 million. The parking policy approved was the most aggressive of three options and would raise an estimated $8.5 million

Transportation Secretary Stephanie Pollack and MBTA General Manager Luis Ramirez both advised choosing a more moderate change projected to raise $6.5 million, and Control Board Chairman Joseph Aiello appeared to favor that approach but he was outnumbered by three board members - Steve Poftak, Brian Shortsleeve and Brian Lang - who expressed support for the largest parking fee increases.

Materials from State House News were used in this story.

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