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Meghan Volcy

A new train with red trim waits at an empty subway platform.

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Red Line’s Braintree Branch Will Be Shut Down Through Sept. 29th

An MBTA subway diagram highlighting slow zones on the system as of August 29. Clusters of slow zones remain on the Braintree branch of the Red Line in lower right and the ends of the Orange Line, with a scattering of other individual slow zones on the inner-core segments of the Red, Green, and Orange lines.

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Last Week’s Red Line Closure Fixed 6 More Slow Zones

A map of the Harvard Square area illustrating route changes for the MBTA 66 bus, which will now run through the Harvard bus tunnel to connect to the Red Line underground.

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T Updates Routing for Bus 66 Through Harvard Bus Tunnel

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Christian MilNeil

A rendering of a large mixed-use development consisting of several multi-story buildings. In the left foreground is a golf course; in the bottom-right corner is the Riverside MBTA Green Line station, and in the upper right is a large rail yard for Green Line trains.

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Housing

New Plans for Riverside Green Line Station Call for More Housing, Less Parking

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A Rider’s Guide to the MBTA’s Looming Financial Crisis

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Here’s How to Apply for the MBTA’s New Low-Income Fare Program

A drone's-eye view of the massive Alewife parking garage in Cambridge. The top level of the garage is roughly the size of 3.5 football fields, and is completely empty of any parked cars in the image.

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Alewife Redevelopment Could Convert Obsolete Garage Into Thousands of New Transit-Oriented Homes

A diagram map of the Red Line illustrating alternative travel options on the purple commuter rail lines (running between Porter and North Station on the left, and between South Station and JFK/UMass and Braintree to the right) and bus shuttles, illustrated as a dashed black line with stops at most Red Line stations except Park Street in the center of the map. There the dashed line diverts to Haymarket and State stations nearby.

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Downtown, South Boston Red Line Closure Extended Through Monday

A diversion diagram for the Green Line B branch, illustrated as a horizontal line, with Boston College on the left and Kenmore to the right, with an arrow pointing further right labelled "Park St & north". A black dotted line connects stations between Boston College and Babcock St., representing suspended streetcar service. A solid green line, representing active service, connects Babcock St. to Kenmore to the right. Red octagons with white Xs mark the Allston St., Griggs St. and Packards Corner stations where there will be no shuttle service.

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T Suspends B Branch Service Along Commonwealth Ave. ‘Til August 11

Workers replace rails in a subway tunnel, with a station platform visible in the distance.

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July’s Red Line Closure Fixed 9 More Slow Zones