MBTA chart.
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.
The T managed to fix this morning's issues on the Blue Line just in time to announce new delays due to switch problems at Wonderland.
The Blue Line is even more of a mess than usual today, as in, the T is running shuttle buses between Orient Heights and Wonderland and telling people who can to take the ferry, because of some sort of wire ish at Revere Beach.
WCVB reports maintenance equipment derailed on the Blue Line yesterday and on the Red Line today.
The MBTA today switched to a new mode on the arrival boards at terminal stations and stops near them: Instead of telling riders when the next two trains should arrive, signs now just tell them how often trains are currently running. Read more.
Man in act of kicking somebody onto train tracks. Surveillance photos via TPD.
The black triangles show where trains can't go more than 10 m.p.h.
The MBTA has unveiled its speed restrictions dashboard so you can see where somebody on a bicycle can pedal faster than a subway train - like much of the Blue Line and the Green Line between Chestnut Hill Avenue in Brighton and the Lechmere viaduct.
The T promises to update the page every day so riders can follow along as the T clears, or doesn't, the slow zones that have long plagued riders and all the new ones that were added over the past couple months.
Interim MBTA General Manager Jeff Gonneville says the T is continuing to work through a morass of track defects across all four subway lines and that he hopes to lift the "global" speed restrictions on the Green Line with the start of service on Saturday. Read more.
In 1875, Richard Doyle anticipated the T in "Triumphal March of the Elf-King."
The T sounded the alarm tonight: Nearly a third of the tracks on the Red, Orange and Blue Lines remain subject to snailish speed restrictions, which are in place along all the tracks on the Green and Mattapan lines. Read more.
Rapid transit back in the day. See it larger.
The MBTA began slowing down all its subway trains around 5:30 p.m. yesterday after state inspectors filed reports that they found track problems on one Red Line stretch this week and the T couldn't assure them that repairs had actually been made because of problems with paperwork and decided it needed to check all its tracks. Read more.
The T is currently running buses instead of trains between Maverick and Airport because of a downed wire.
The MBTA announced tonight that trains on all four subway lines will no longer go any faster than 25 m.p.h. - and that in some spots their drivers are being told to go no more than 10 m.p.h., following an inspection of the Red Line between Ashmont and Savin Hill by investigators from the state Department of Public Utilities, which has suddenly remembered it has the power to investigate T operations. Read more.
Open, non-functioning Green Street station at 7:44 a.m. Photo by Sunsan Ellsbree.
Update: GBH reports a transformer in South Boston failed, triggering a power surge that tripped a circuit breaker.
In the middle of rush hour, the MBTA lost power to the signaling systems on all its subway lines - and at some stations - leaving some riders stranded and others breaking out their phones to call a ride-share to work. Read more.
WFXT reports the MBTA is now close to having the minimum number of dispatchers it needs to restore more frequent service on the Orange, Red and Blue Lines, but that now it also doesn't have enough cars and drivers for them.
What the T calls a "signal problem" near Maverick has caused a morning commute from hell on the Blue Line.
The T reports Blue Line delays of up to 20 minutes due to a "power issue near Wood Island," which, like many such power issues on the above-ground part of the Blue Line, probably means the overhead power line got ripped down somehow, or the top of a car began sparking.
To make matters worse, one rider reports: "There is a busker tunelessly crooning Christmas carols at State. God save us."
Dr. Jessica Dello Russo considers the escalator at the Bowdoin Blue Line station: Read more.
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