Nicole Dungca | The Boston Globe

“A transit advocacy group is calling on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority to run eight overnight bus routes in the Boston area to compensate for the loss of late-night rail and bus service earlier this year.

Transit Matters, which lobbies for improved public transportation, is backing an estimated $3.5 million plan to run overnight buses every 75 minutes. The expanded service would cater to early- and late-shift workers in the hospitality and health care industries.

‘This latest proposal similarly addresses not the desire, but the need of so many businesses and workers across the city,’ Michelle Wu, president of the Boston City Council, said Monday at the weekly meeting of the MBTA’s fiscal control board.

Transit Matters had brought forward a similar proposal earlier this year. While MBTA officials appeared more open to the latest plan, they still voiced some reservations.”