The MBTA’s board of directors last week approved fare increases, as well as reduced service on bus, commuter rail, and ferry lines and the rapid transit Green Line, in order to close a $160 million budget gap for next fiscal year. South of Boston, cuts included elimination of weekend service on the Fore River Shipyard ferry in Quincy, the Greenbush and Kingston/Plymouth branches of the Old Colony Railroad, the Needham commuter rail line, and the 245 bus, which runs from Mattapan through Milton to Quincy Center.
