A subway train that derailed near Boston earlier this month had entered a 10 mph zone traveling at 36 mph, according to an initial report from the National Transportation Safety Board released Wednesday.
Problems with the MBTA’s new 4.4-mile Green Line Extension are so severe that the agency will need to widen more than two-thirds of the nearly brand-new tracks, officials announced Thursday, a stunning development that reveals construction and oversight failures.
One-quarter of the entire MBTA subway system will still be subject to more-sluggish-than-usual travel even after the agency lifted end-to-end speed restrictions on the Green Line Monday morning.
Federal investigators identified a Green Line operator’s “loss of situational awareness” as the likely cause of a July 2021 Green Line collision, and their report about the incident published Thursday also appeared to reveal a lengthy delay to an overdue MBTA safety feature that could have prevented the crash.
Residents in cities north of Boston only have to wait a few more days, the last in a decades-long span of promises and anticipation, before they can hop on a Green Line trolley into the state’s capital city.
One final delay of a couple of weeks looms, and then the long-awaited second and final Green Line Extension branch will open to riders on Dec. 12, MBTA General Manager Steve Poftak announced Thursday.
The MBTA has chosen a design for a series of “supercar” trains to replace its current Green Line fleet starting in 2026.
Riders are once again able to traverse downtown Boston on the MBTA’s Green and Orange lines after the agency’s engineers on Sunday evening declared tunnels safe for subway travel, capping off days of upheaval for the already-troubled agency.
Less than 24 hours after receiving emergency marching orders from federal transit safety inspectors, MBTA officials announced an entire arm of the transit agency’s Green Line will shut down for 12 days to repair tracks and install a new safety system.
A command center where some train dispatchers get only four hours off after 20-hour shifts. Hundreds of workers with lapsed safety certifications. Tracks dangerously unmaintained. Federal officials are forcing the T to immediately fix these issues and more.
Federal transit overseers will wrap up their on-site inspections of the MBTA this week, and they have already flagged a quartet of major safety issue areas they want the agency to address quickly, the T’s top safety official said Monday.
Investigators have found “no evidence” so far that vehicle or infrastructure issues played a role in a Wednesday night collision between two Green Line trains and are looking at possible human errors, but have yet to conclude the cause of the incident, MBTA General Manager Steve Poftak said Thursday.
A collision of two subway trains in Boston sent four employees of the city’s troubled transit system to the hospital, officials said.
Efforts to replace the MBTA’s entire Green Line trolley fleet, a statewide move toward electric vehicle adoption, and projects to make infrastructure more resilient in the face of climate change impacts would all get a boost under a $9.7 billion bond bill Gov. Charlie Baker outlined on Thursday.
The MBTA will postpone the opening of a Green Line Extension stop in Somerville by three months, and the already-delayed May 2022 goal for the remainder of the megaproject may also run into issues, officials announced Thursday.
The MBTA’s bus lines may have hardly changed since the days of streetcars, but that’s not stopping the city of Newton from trying to expand mass transit access to one of its largest business districts.
Frequent shutdowns are coming to the entire MBTA system this year, including a month offline for the Green Line’s C and E branches, as the T ramps up maintenance plans.
The Green Line station in the works at the intersection of College and Boston avenues in Medford will be named Medford/Tufts, under an agreement announced Thursday by Tufts University.
Transportation officials took a key step toward implementing promised improvements Monday by approving a five-year, $18.3 billion capital investment plan.
Gov. Charlie Baker’s and Boston Mayor Marty Walsh’s responses to the pair of MBTA derailments last week suggest both men still lack adequate plans to deal with the system’s biggest challenges.
