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No Red Line north of Harvard on weekends
By BostonUrbEx - 10/22/11 - 9:32 amRecently, if you look out the windows on the Red Line between Harvard and Porter, you'll almost always find workers pressing against the wall to let a train by. In case the water-stained tunnel walls don't give it away: they're working on the corroded tracks as we speak. However, that may not be enough time to keep the tunnels in shape, and as The Globe explains:
The MBTA will close the Red Line north of Harvard Square on weekends from November through March to complete $80 million in repairs designed to keep trains from derailing, transit administrators said yesterday.
Starting Nov. 5, weekend service will stop to allow T crews to plug tunnel cracks and seal water leaks that have eroded the concrete track base and corroded power lines. Then crews will replace damaged track, supports, and electrical components.
Are You Kidding Me???
By Barbara Diamond - 3/6/08 - 1:29 pmT safest in a decade??
Are these MBTA people for real?
Muggers Take Note
By Barbara Diamond - 3/6/08 - 1:10 pmThe MBTA is nearly doubling the number of cash machines within its subway stations - and the cash-strapped transit agency will pick up an extra $226,400 a year in the process.
The T’s board of directors yesterday OK’d going ahead with leases with Bank of America, TD Banknorth and Select A Branch Inc., to put a total of 19 ATMs in stations, up from 10 that were previously provided by Citizens Bank under a prior contract.
Bank of America won with a $30,000 bid the right to place just one ATM in the busy Park Street station.
