Late-night MBTA service has been given nearly a three-month extension, giving transit officials extra time to decide whether to provide longterm funding for the one-year pilot program launched at the end of last March.

MassDOT Secretary Stephanie Pollack and T general manager Beverly Scott announced Thursday that late-night service will continue to run on weekends through June 19 to provide more time for public input on the program before a final call is made.

“I am pleased that we were able to extend our weekend service hours through this pilot program,” Scott said a press release. “Now we can take a hard look at the data collected over the course of the pilot, and take the time needed to chart out the next best steps. Continuing the pilot program through June gives us ample time to make decisions about the future of Late Night service.”

An interim review with additional late-night service data is expected to be released at a MassDOT board meeting scheduled to take place February 11. Late-night riders and stakeholders in the program will be allowed to give their feedback during a one-month comment period scheduled to come to an end March 11. Recommendations received during the comment period will be included in the FY2016 budget proposal presented at an April 15 MassDOT board meeting.

“We owe the public all of the information we have and the chance to provide input on ways we could keep or modify late night service,” Pollack said in the release. “I am committed to using both hard data and public input as we establish spending priorities for the T.”

The one-year pilot debuted March 28, 2014, extending Friday night and Saturday night service on all subway lines and 15 key bus routes by 90 minutes. A little more than one million late-night trips have been made since the pilot program launched.

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