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What passes for coordination at the MBTA
By adamg on Thu, 01/03/2008 - 11:31pm
The MBTA says it has to shut Langley Road in Newton Centre for six months to repair a bridge over the Riverside Line - and will likely have to shut Riverside service for five weekends as part of the work (so get ready for buses, folks).
Greg Reibman is all for repairing decaying bridges, but he wonders why the T couldn't have coordinated the work with this past summer's Riverside shutdown.
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multiple choice answer
A) It wasn't determined to be broken last summer.
B) They didn't have the money to do both repairs at once.
C) The overpass repair person and rail repair person are not the same people to know what each other is doing.
D) All of the above.
E
(Not the Arborway line, but another choice.)
E) They couldn't arrange it with the city of Newton to close the road at that time.
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Is this the same bridge that
Is this the same bridge that opened the massive pothole over the riverside line last year?
I don't think I can handle
I don't think I can handle those buses again. This is not good news.
On another note regarding the T, can anybody answer this question for me?:
Why did the Boylston Street entrance into Hynes Station close? I know it has been closed for a while and only opens up on Marathon Monday to support the extra crowds but why is it closed every other day of the year? This is really bothering me!
That Bridge
I don't think anyone knows exactly who owns that bridge. I used to live around the corner from the Newton Centre station, and when I tried to report neo-nazi grafitti, the city of Newton sent me to the MBTA, and the MBTA sent me to the city of Newton. Good times...