
Red Line Train Derails, Hits Platform
The second car of a slow-moving, six-car Red Line train derailed on Tuesday morning.
The second car of a slow-moving, six-car Red Line train derailed on Tuesday morning.
While many MBTA riders will likely throw their phone, computer or newspaper across the room when they read this, may this publication suggest June’s Red Line derailment was just the lucky break the state needed?
A survey of Boston-area biotech workers shows almost two-thirds say they would change jobs to get a better commute and four out of five think state leaders are asleep at the switch on transportation.
The union representing thousands of MBTA employees slammed the transit authority over past budget cuts Monday, the day that officials announced a broken axle damaged by a ground ring as the cause of a June 11 Red Line derailment.
A 27-year-old axle on a Red Line car fractured and caused a June 11 derailment, MBTA officials announced Monday, offering a clearer picture of the problem that has led to months of delays and headaches on a train line that transports hundreds of thousands of commuters.
MBTA officials have received laboratory test results that they believe will help identify the cause of a June 11 Red Line derailment, but do not plan to make the findings public until later this month, despite previously saying they expected an answer by now.
Data from the MBTA has backed up what many might see as a common sense prediction: the slow, unreliable service on the Red Line since its June derailment has suppressed ridership and sent customer satisfaction levels into the cellar.
Transit officials say it will likely be October before all repairs are completed to signals that were damaged when a Red Line train derailed in Boston.
Ridership on the MBTA’s Red Line dropped by about 10 percent in the week following a derailment in June that destroyed key signal equipment at the JFK/UMass station.
State Street Corp.’s recent decision to sublease two of its four Quincy office buildings totaling nearly 390,000 square feet shakes up a suburban submarket that’s been the heart of the financial service provider’s back office presence in Massachusetts. Will new projects Dorchester draw away tenants?
In the wake of a June 12 derailment that destroyed a key signal system at the Red Line’s JFK/UMass stop, the MBTA has been forced to revert to 19th century methods of controlling trains, causing a slowdown along the entire line.
A new poll by the MassInc Polling Group for WBUR shows over half of Boston-area residents disapprove of Gov. Charlie Baker’s handling of the MBTA.