MBTA Board Updates: More New Orange Line Trains Coming, And More Bus Garage Discussion
The MBTA’s Fiscal Control Management Board met today for the first time since the December holidays for a relatively short meeting focused on the agency’s backlogged bus garage maintenance needs, which Streetsblog covered in detail last week.
Some highlights:
Deputy General Manager Jeffrey Gonneville announced that the source of an “uncommon noise” in new Orange Line cars has been pinpointed to wear pads on a part called the “bolster,” which is located between the body of each train car and the truck frame that holds a train’s wheels. Those parts have been replaced on the new trains, and the assembly line has been updated in the Springfield manufacturing facility where additional new Orange and Red Line trains are being assembled.
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