Return of the new Orange Line cars just weeks away, MBTA says
By adamg on Tue, 08/10/2021 - 8:39pm
The MBTA said tonight it expects to start running those new Orange Line cars again "before the end of the summer," which means sometime before, oh, Sept. 21.
Over the weekend, T crews were busy exercising some of the new cars along the tracks north of Boston that were originally built for an express service that, of course, never happened.
The new cars have been out of service since a train derailed at Wellington, possibly due to it being more portly than could be handled by an aging switch there - a switch the T was about to replace.
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Which September 21st?? (2021
Which September 21st?? (2021, 2022???)
But did they specify which year?
There is always a next summer.
And…when….
Red?
I'll bring my own anti-slide
I'll bring my own anti-slide seat cushion.
Was not the issue something
Was not the issue something was wrong with the trains and they couldn't turn after a certain amount of low numbers uses?
Perhaps they have made a
Perhaps they have made a modification to the problematic side-bearing pads and that is what they are testing before putting them back into service.
My question
Does Charlie Baker get to go to another ribbon-cutting ceremony?
Only if …
… he takes the T to get there.