BOSTON (AP) - Gov. Charlie Baker is poised to release a report Wednesday on the state of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.
Baker sought the examination after severe winter storms crippled the system.
Baker will unveil the report during a morning press conference.
Several items have already been made public.
The panel concluded that since 2009, the Boston-area transit agency has only spent about 53 percent of its capital budget, leading to chronic underinvestment.
The report also found that absenteeism among MBTA workers leads to thousands of canceled trips each year and has substantially driven up overtime costs at a time when the agency is hampered by unsustainable operating costs.
The panel also reported that the T's operating costs are growing at an average rate of 5.25 percent a year, twice the rate of inflation.