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Well here you go! Check out the first "MBTA Scorecard" Includes everything from on time performance, to lies! Have yourself a good laugh, and check it out. And guess what, The Green Line's "train tracking system is used for on-time performance reporting, but performing the analysis is most practical on a periodic rather than a monthly basis", So there's absolutely no data for the Green Line. Cover up, much! http://mbta.com/about_the_mbta/scorecard/
The T Riders Union suggests that readily-available failsafe technology might have prevented Friday's Green Line crash, the Herald reports.
The failsafe sensors are used on the Red Line and Orange Line, but Grabauskas says that installing them in Green Line tunnels is more difficult, and that raising this issue is a "distraction" from the root cause of Friday's crash.
A preschooler was left accidentally on a Northbridge school bus Monday for more than six hours, the Globe reports.
The article did not say whether the teachers or staff at his school noticed his absence, nor whether the school has policy of checking with parent or guardian when a preschooler is absent.
The Globe reports that the BSL4 lab in the South End will be delayed until at least late next year. Reportedly, the safety review will take longer than projected.
Putting a lab that could handle the most deadly biologicals in a dense urban area has been opposed by residents and some professional organizations. See also a report by the Security Studies Program at MIT.
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