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Schedule for new Orange Line trains slipping again?
By adamg on Fri, 06/28/2019 - 11:48am
UPDATE: The T has revised the page to read "summer 2019." So remain calm?
Ted noticed today that the MBTA's Orange Line Improvement Program page now lists "late 2019" for the first actual use of some of those new Orange Line trains. The first sparkly new train was originally scheduled to roll out last December, then this spring, then sometime vaguely this summer. Since summer officially runs until Sept. 21, one guess that a Sept. 20 train arrival might qualify as both summer and "late 2019."
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Never forget!
The Boston Globe is the best, Charlie Baker is the best, The MBTA is the best, and LPH is the most important person in Boston!
I honestly totally really appreciates good service on T because it keeps the traffic low so those of us who have to drive or have drivers can get places on time. Since the Red Line died traffic to the south is brutal and they don't change the ferry schedule to the Vineyard or Nantucket or the cape.
#trafficwickedsucks
#keepkarsoffroads,
#evnironment
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#Trumpbuildsinfrastructure
#chinesetrains
#Gosox
Thanks for stopping by.
Those were certainly words.
Wait
You take the ferry to Nantucket? The Globe is truly in rough shape. Perhaps daddy can take some of the Mo Salah transfer money and let you fly down there.
Seriously
The ferry is so bourgeois. The 1% take Cape Air or JetBlue. The 1% of the 1% are going by private jet to their $10 MM "cottage."
Chump Change
$10MM cottage is for the staff. The 1% of 1% have a compound.
Ferries haven't been doing so well over the last year, either
Take a look at the Globe's coverage of the Steamship Authority and get back to us.
When I look at the linked
When I look at the linked page I see:
"The first vehicles are in testing, they’re scheduled to be put into service in summer 2019."
Oh, those imps
They changed the wording. This morning, just before I posted this, I checked, and it said "late 2019."
It got changed back to "summer 2019"
Probably someone jumped the gun on updating the page before the media communication strategy was finalized. Any time you see "late 2019" you should assume "last week of December, 2019." If they thought they'd make it before late December, they'd say "fall."
Same thing happened with Charliecard use on SShore commuter rail
The T announced riders could use their Charliecard on the South Shore commuter rail lines as part of the Red Line emergency service package. Other CR commuters on different lines said wait, what!!!? and the T quickly changed their tune. The Baker T cannot be trusted.
Ah... "Made In China"
Ah... "Made In China"
Should have gone with Kinki Sharyo!
Baker doesn't care about T riders
Hey Baker needs to start scrimping for the billion dollar project to save summer cape drivers 15 minutes on the weekends. Might as well be on the T.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2019/05/22/the-cape-cod-bridges-are...
Tariff on Trains
By the time the trains are ready they will cost twice as much to build in China than if they were built in Massachusetts.
The trains are built in
The trains are built in Springfield. The Chinese company had to build a factory there on the site of the old New England Westinghouse plant as part of the contract.
They're assembled in Springfield ...
Out of shells shipped over from China and loaded with components from other places (somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but for example, some of the electronics come from some European company)..