CommonWealth reports that both an outside consultant and an internal study show that contributing to our current slow-transit system is a dysfunctional workplace featuring inadequate staffing, poorly trained workers and bad communication. And that's a key reason the number of slow zones hasn't decreased and why new GM Phil Eng has brought in a bunch of outsiders to try to right the ship, um, tracks.
The Federal Transit Administration yesterday demanded the MBTA take "immediate action" to correct safety problems it says are still endangering T workers ten months after it issued several urgent directives about safety problems on MBTA subway lines. Read more.
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New MBTA General Manager Phillip Eng said today that although he hopes to have all speed restrictions between Bowdoin and Aquarium on the Blue Line lifted by the end of May, fixing all the track and other problems that keep slowing the line down could take until November to fix. Read more.
New MBTA General Manager Phillip Eng said today he's looking forward to the challenge of righting a transit system falling apart at the seams, with massive delays due to track problems, other safety issues and inadequate staffing caused by decades of disinvestment in the system. Read more.
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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