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A new Orange Line train at Assembly Station in summer 2019. Courtesy of the MBTA.

MBTA Board Update: What Happened to Our New Orange Line Trains?

By Christian MilNeil | Oct 5, 2020 | No Comments

The MBTA’s Fiscal and Management Control Board met today with an agenda that included more discussion of expected 2021 budget cuts and an update on the agency’s stalled procurement of new Orange and Red Line train cars. Those new cars have struggled with design problems, including issues with doors opening while the new trains were […]

A City of Boston rendering illustrates the center-running bus lane concept for Blue Hill Avenue near Walk Hill Street. Under the plan, bus lanes and dedicated stations would run in the middle of the street, away from double-parked cars and turning vehicles. Pedestrian crossings would also be significantly shorter. Courtesy of the City of Boston.

Washington Snubs Dorchester Bus Riders In Favor of a Suburban Highway Interchange

By Christian MilNeil | Sep 17, 2020 | No Comments

New bus lanes on Blue Hill Avenue would benefit roughly 20,000 bus riders in Dorchester and Mattapan, reduce their collective commuting times by 800 hours every day, and allow the T to make over 100 additional daily bus trips along existing routes using the same number of buses and drivers, according to a rejected application for federal funding.

An outbound MBTA Fairmount Line train stops at the Talbot Avenue station in December 2012. Photo by Wikimedia Commons user Pi.1415926535, CC BY-SA 3.0.

MBTA Board Update: More Baby Steps Toward All-Day Regional Rail Service

By Christian MilNeil | Sep 15, 2020 | No Comments

Trains to Lynn will depart every 30 minutes starting in November (up from every 30 to 90 minutes last year), and trains on the Fairmount Line will run every 45 minutes (up from every 60 minutes last year).

A rendering of a proposed new bus garage in Quincy, MA. Courtesy of the MBTA.

T Files Plans for New, Expanded Bus Garage in Quincy

By Christian MilNeil | Sep 11, 2020 | No Comments

The proposed facility would replace one of the T's oldest bus maintenance facilities and include space for an expanded bus fleet.

Two Green Line trains and an MBTA bus meet at the Mission Park stop of the E Branch on Huntington Avenue in Boston.

The Tracks Are New, But the Green Line’s E Branch Still Gets Stuck in Traffic

By Christian MilNeil | Sep 10, 2020 | No Comments

Last week, the E Branch of the Green Line reopened to riders after a month-long construction project to replace tracks on Huntington Avenue. But, as we noted in our coverage of the reopening, the project did not address one of the biggest challenges that the E branch faces: the fact that cars and trucks are […]

Video: Watch the Green Line’s E Branch Reconstruction in 45 Seconds

By Christian MilNeil | Sep 1, 2020 | No Comments

The 28-day closure on the E branch allowed workers to replace three miles' worth of track in a compressed construction timeline: the T estimates that if the same work had been done piecemeal during weekend and nighttime closures, it could have taken a full year to get finished.

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