No Red Line slow zones for first time in two decades, MBTA says

By adamg on Mon, 11/25/2024 - 3:20pm

The MBTA reports that the most recent Red Line shutdown means the Red Line "is now completely free of all slow zones for the first time in at least 20 years."

The T had earlier announced similar goal reaching with tracks on the Blue and Orange lines, and says the Green Line will lose its last speed restrictions next month.

Of course, as Orange Line riders learned last week and Red Line riders learned on Nov. 11, slow zones are far from the only problems on the T.

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Kudos

By SnoopJ on Mon, 11/25/2024 - 3:41pm.

A round of applause for the crews and other MBTA workers who made this maintenance campaign possible. I am anxiously waiting to see what will be done about the fiscal cliff and ongoing maintenance, but the Authority has made a huge turnaround that is worthy of celebration.

Full Speed Ahead!

By Rob on Mon, 11/25/2024 - 4:17pm.

Full Speed Ahead!

...just in time for wet-leaves season.

No Slow Zones

By Keith on Mon, 11/25/2024 - 5:51pm.

Great now they can go faster when they aren't broken

Not much of a problem …

By Ari O on Mon, 11/25/2024 - 7:20pm.

… at least north of Columbia Junction.

Will it last long enough?

By Zhu Hengpeng on Mon, 11/25/2024 - 6:37pm.

Will it last long enough?

From the releases and

By flatrick-westrox on Mon, 11/25/2024 - 7:49pm.

From the releases and statements I read, it sounds like they'll still need to be somewhat aggressive with shutdowns next year to both keep on top of deferred maintenance as well as get some clear track to work on their signal replacement for Red and orange lines... In addition to this they'll be accepting delivery of and rolling out new red and orange line cars over the next 2 years.

How is shutdown better than a

By Zhu Hengpeng on Tue, 11/26/2024 - 8:52am.

How is shutdown better than a slow zone?

Slow zones just mean trains

By Oxenfree on Tue, 11/26/2024 - 8:58am.

Slow zones just mean trains going slowly, not that any work is able to get done. Shutdowns are what are needed to get the work done most effectively.

Just red

By Oxenfree on Tue, 11/26/2024 - 8:57am.

The Orange cars are all here (AFAIK). We're still waiting on the Red Line cars that should have been here years ago.

But yeah - now that track is generally fixed (minus maintenance and unforeseen issues), it's time to work on the signals and switches.

Thirty Orange Line trains left

By Cleary Squared on Tue, 11/26/2024 - 12:27pm.

According to the MBTA inventory I read (http://roster.transithistory.org/), there are 30 cars remaining to be built - 28 brand new and two that received extensive damage after a derailment. Then CRRC will begin concentrating on building more Red Line cars.