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Appoint an MBTA Safety Chief within 60 days to inspect the transit system top to bottom.

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PartialFact-checker reviewConfidence: 85%

Independently verified against multiple outlets (GBH, Boston.com, NBC Boston, Boston Globe, and the official Mass.gov release). Healey delivered the substantive deliverable: she created and filled a first-ever MassDOT Chief Safety Officer position, appointing veteran transit official Patrick Lavin (former WMATA and NYC Transit safety official; contributor to the 2019 MBTA safety review) with explicit oversight of MBTA safety plus all transportation modes (rail, bus, commuter rail, paratransit, highway). However, in her inaugural address she pledged to create and fill this position within her first 60 days and instead announced Lavin on her 110th day (April 24, 2023) — missing the self-imposed deadline by roughly 50 days, nearly double the promised window. Because the 60-day timing was an explicit, measurable term of the promise and was clearly broken while the core action was achieved, this is kept-some-but-not-all rather than a full keep. This standard is party-neutral: an identical record from any party would warrant PARTIAL, and rating it FULL would improperly ignore the deadline the politician herself set. Both prior-rating sources are real, live, and on-point; one quote corrected to verbatim wording.

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