Gov. Healey today announced she's hired Phillip Eng, who retired as president of the Long Island Rail Road last year, as the new general manager of the embattled MBTA. Read more.
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By adamg - 3/26/23 - 10:32 am
Crews were busy filming a scene for the Matt Damon/Casey Affleck crime-caper film at City Hall last night. Lots of faux emergency vehicles with blue lights flashing everywhere, film workers and actors doing film work and acting and the whole nine yards. Enter Stage Right: The shuttle buses called in to replace the Red Line due to signal work: Read more.
By adamg - 3/23/23 - 12:30 pm
The black triangles show where trains can't go more than 10 m.p.h.
The MBTA has unveiled its speed restrictions dashboard so you can see where somebody on a bicycle can pedal faster than a subway train - like much of the Blue Line and the Green Line between Chestnut Hill Avenue in Brighton and the Lechmere viaduct.
The T promises to update the page every day so riders can follow along as the T clears, or doesn't, the slow zones that have long plagued riders and all the new ones that were added over the past couple months.
By adamg - 3/22/23 - 10:36 am
Billyinboston spotted this flock of pints on what is now a properly broken-in new Red Line car yesterday.
Earlier:
Councilor calls for ban on nips.
By adamg - 3/21/23 - 10:17 pm
A roving UHub photographer captured the scene along Commonwealth Avenue at Chiswick Road when a driver realized he could not occupy the same space as a Green Line trolley shortly before 6:45 p.m. The T was forced to bustitute for about a half hour until the car and the trolley could be removed.
By adamg - 3/21/23 - 6:37 pm
Robert Orthman was among the teeming Orange Line riders who had to make like Godot after some leaves along the tracks caught fire near Oak Grove at rush hour, because you know how those leaves get on a dry day.
By adamg - 3/19/23 - 9:54 pm
Swimman79 spotted somebody carrying a borg - although possibly filled with something other than vodka - on the Orange Line today. Or, since this is Boston, he says, it was a Mark Walborg.
By adamg - 3/19/23 - 9:23 pm
Not quite up to full sprinting speed yet.
The MBTA announced tonight it's cleared a bunch of track problems and put up the proper signs for trolley drivers so it's lifting the "global" speed restrictions on the Green Line, just a few hours after it said the entire Green Line would remain a slow zone for awhile. Read more.
By adamg - 3/19/23 - 5:43 pm
After saying yesterday the only reason to keep the entire Green Line as a slow zone was to put up signs to alert train drivers to individualized slow zones, the MBTA announced today it's steady, um, slow as she goes for the entire Green Line because they've found more track problems. Read more.
By adamg - 3/17/23 - 3:53 pm
Interim MBTA General Manager Jeff Gonneville says the T is continuing to work through a morass of track defects across all four subway lines and that he hopes to lift the "global" speed restrictions on the Green Line with the start of service on Saturday. Read more.
By adamg - 3/16/23 - 9:04 am
The MBTA announced this morning it's lifted most of the speed restrictions on the Mattapan Line, but adds it still has "block restrictions where necessary," so not quite 100% back to being the Mattapan High-ish Speed Line.
Fans of more leisurely trolley rides can still hop on the Green Line, which remains a "global" slow zone as inspectors continue to look for both new track problems and old ones that the T isn't sure if they were actually fixed.
By adamg - 3/15/23 - 5:34 pm
Update: MBTA says it wasn't concrete, but about a pound of felt.
Two largeish concrete chunks observed this morning.
By adamg - 3/14/23 - 12:02 am
The MBTA reports it will be keeping the old trolleys snug in their yard during the nor'easter. Also being kept off their routes: ferry boats. Read more.
By adamg - 3/12/23 - 9:10 pm
In 1875, Richard Doyle anticipated the T in "Triumphal March of the Elf-King."
The T sounded the alarm tonight: Nearly a third of the tracks on the Red, Orange and Blue Lines remain subject to snailish speed restrictions, which are in place along all the tracks on the Green and Mattapan lines. Read more.
By adamg - 3/12/23 - 4:49 pm
This morning, the MBTA reported delays of up to 20 minutes, atop the more usual delays, on the Red Line's Ashmont branch due to a "track problem" at Ashmont. You may recall that the decision to turn the entire T system into a slow zone last week was due to track problems state inspectors found on that branch.
By adamg - 3/10/23 - 11:05 am
Rapid transit back in the day. See it larger.
The MBTA began slowing down all its subway trains around 5:30 p.m. yesterday after state inspectors filed reports that they found track problems on one Red Line stretch this week and the T couldn't assure them that repairs had actually been made because of problems with paperwork and decided it needed to check all its tracks. Read more.
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