While Boston’s mayor projects a month-long Orange Line and partial Green Line shutdown will unleash “chaos,” Gov. Charlie Baker said Tuesday he feels confident that recent subway closures have gone more or less smoothly.
A business-backed group says it’s offered a plan to Gov. Charlie Baker that it claims could cut the planned Orange Line shutdown in half and generate more work hours than the MBTA’s current plans.
With a top state lawmaker calling for de facto federal receivership of the MBTA to address a torrent of safety failures, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said Monday that the agency needs “a partnership, not a takeover.”
The MBTA’s decision to shut down its Green Line subway north of downtown Boston will give developer HYM time to finish demolishing part of a huge garage that hangs over the train’s tunnel, the agency’s leader said Friday.
It’s ironic the Baker administration’s chosen approach to the much-needed Orange Line shutdown seems destined to further erode the same public trust in the T it was supposed to repair.
The MBTA will venture into uncharted territory with a newly announced month-long shutdown of the Orange Line, and the unprecedented step might not be the last of its kind.
With the MBTA planning to shut down its entire Orange Line subway to conduct a range of safety repairs and upgrades, the 101,000 people who take the line every day will need to use different ways to get to work.
The upcoming shutdown of the entire MBTA Orange Line will also prompt work to phase out some of the oldest subway cars in service, officials announced Wednesday.
