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T Declares Victory Over Notorious ‘Tufts Curve’ Slow Zone On the Orange Line

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Harvard Red Line security camera footage

Are We Feeling Safe Yet? Falling Utility Box at Harvard Station Contained Forgotten Homeland Security Surveillance Equipment

Workers wearing flourescent green jackets place new rebar under the subway tracks inside a subway tunnel. Behind them, three more workers watch over them from the top of an orange machine that has lights illuminating the work

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How Red Line Track Defects Prompted Last Week’s Systemwide Slowdown on the T

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Elections and Politics

Healey Admin. Recruits Transit Justice Leader to Lead MBTA’s Safety Oversight Agency

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SYSTEMWIDE SLOW ZONE: MBTA Sets 25 MPH Speed Limit On Subways

MassDOT Secretary Stephanie Pollack, wearing a blazer over a red top, stands next to Steve Poftak (center) wearing a suit and pink-and-blue plaid tie, and Mass. Gov. Charlie Baker, wearing a buttoned suit and green tie. All three are holding scissors and segments of a cut orange ribbon. They stand in front of a new Orange Line train car bearing the words "OAK GROVE" on the destination sign above the door.

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MBTA General Manager Steve Poftak Announces Resignation, Effective in January

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Senators Grill MBTA’s Poftak: ‘The Problems We’re Discussing Here Occurred on Your Watch’

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Final Safety Inspection Report Focuses on Hiring, Workforce Challenges at the T

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A Green Line train bears the destination “Union Square” at Lechmere station in Cambridge.

T Announces Another Month-Long Closure For 5 Green Line Stops; Postpones Opening Date For Medford Extension

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100,000 Riders In the Lurch: MBTA Will Shut Down Entire Orange Line For 30 Days Starting August 19

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