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.
An affiliate of Florida-based multifamily giant Mill Creek Residential has filed plans for a new, large apartment building in northern Quincy.
With the subway cars on its biggest line so old that it’s having to run shorter trains to prevent putting broken trains on the tracks, the fate of CRRC-made trains is a vital concern.
Reports of smoke at the Downtown Crossing station triggered massive disruptions to the MBTA’s core subway system, shutting down more than a dozen stops on a day when the morning commute was already snarled by winter weather.
Dorchester’s mass transit backbone, the Ashmont Branch of the MBTA’s Red Line, will close for over two weeks in October as the transit agency struggles to contain deteriorating track conditions.
For Red Line commuters who have suffered through months of slow zones and more than a year of service cuts, an eight-minute trip from Harvard Square to Park Street might sound like a pipedream. But that wasn’t always the case.
Firefighters had to manually carry water up to an elevated platform to fight a small fire was reported underneath a car on a train at Charles/MGH.
Citing a “continued failure” to prevent runaway trains despite past warnings, federal overseers Friday ordered the MBTA to conduct a new series of safety briefings for workers and produce new documentation putting necessary inspection steps on the record.
A rail extension linking the MBTA’s Red and Blue Lines could cost $850 million and take nearly a decade, according to new estimates presented to the T’s board Tuesday.
A 100 percent leased retail and office building in the heart of Somerville’s Davis Square has been sold for $39 million to Asana Partners of Charlotte, North Carolina.
Developer Jay Doherty spent approximately three years negotiating with a trio of commercial property owners in West Cambridge’s Alewife neighborhood before closing on an $80 million acquisition of nearly 12 acres in August.
