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Riders at the southern end of the Orange Line brace for another longish shutdown

By adamg on Fri, 10/04/2024 - 2:51pm

The Orange Line will be shut between Forest Hills and Back Bay Oct. 8 - 20 for some more of the repair work the T couldn't get to - or discovered it needed to do - during that month-long shutdown back in 2022.

Shuttle buses, natch. The T also suggests commuter rail or, closer to town, the Green Line.

Neighborhoods: 
Back Bay
Jamaica Plain
Roxbury
South End
Topics: 
The T
Free tagging: 
Orange Line


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Comments

By Kinopio on Fri, 10/04/2024 - 3:46pm.

We are paying the price now for how bad Charlie Baker sucked when it came to public transportation. His shutdown accomplished nothing so now we have to suffer again so someone who is actually competent can clean up the mess.

By Cleary Squared on Fri, 10/04/2024 - 4:37pm.

In 2022, the T sang a song of "give us an entire month, and we'll fix this so we have 50mph trains, clean stations, etc." and then after several other promises and oopsies, the T and the federal transportation commission discovered that the T was telling tall tales by exactly how unsafe those rails were, so they implemented slow zones everywhere.

I wouldn't lay all the blame at Baker (some may vigorously differ), but I think he should have been more forthcoming and willing to put a few MBTA managers on blast once the incompetency was evident. At least with Maura Healy's hiring of Philip Eng, things are improving. Or more accurately, Eng is doing things that the managers at the T couldn't or wouldn't do.