The manufacturer under contract to build the MBTA’s new Red Line fleet will furlough nearly half its workforce in Massachusetts this spring as subway car shells from China remain detained at U.S. ports.
I don’t know about you. But I am fed up – and I mean fed up! – with all the negativity in the local media about the world’s greatest transportation system.
With the MBTA still awaiting more than 300 new Red and Orange Line cars to replace units that are up to 50 years old, Gov. Maura Healey said Monday that her administration is still in the “early stages” of identifying what went wrong.
The outlook for the already-delayed transition to entirely new Orange and Red Line fleets continues to grow worse.
Add battery mishaps to the growing list of problems that have plagued the MBTA’s newest subway additions.
