On Monday, service on the Green Line resumed with 16 fewer slow zones after the MBTA was able to repair track defects and other outstanding safety hazards during a 23-day closure of the central segment between Kenmore and North Station.
For most of January, except for a brief reopening during the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday weekend, the T closed the entire E branch south of North Station, the B branch east of Babcock Street, and the C and D branches between North Station and Kenmore station for track work.
The closure gave work crews uninterrupted access to the track and stations to complete repair work that removed 16 safety-related speed restrictions – one more than originally scheduled, according to an MBTA press release issued Monday afternoon.
The T says that it was also able to significantly reduce the length of a seventeenth speed restriction between Haymarket and Government Center in downtown Boston.
The T will next turn its attention to the Red Line in Cambridge, where a 10-day track project in February will close the subway between Alewife and Harvard Square between Feb. 5 and Feb. 14.
