slow zones
News topics:
Green Line Extension Takes a 2-Week Break for the Final Subway Shutdown of 2024
The MBTA is suspending Green Line service between between Park Street and Union Square and Medford/Tufts for two weeks from Friday, December 6th to Friday, December 20 to repair the last remaining slow zones on the Green Line, and the last slow zones identified in the MBTA’s Track Improvement Program.
December 5, 2024
T Things to Be Thankful For This Thanksgiving
It’s the season of thanks, and here in Massachusetts public transit, there is much to be thankful for. As someone who watches their TrainTrakr with remorse at how few trains have been on the move recently, I was pleasantly surprised to see a fully-lit board this morning.
November 27, 2024
MBTA Eliminates Slow Zones From the Red Line
Following a week-long interruption of service on the region's busiest subway line, the MBTA reopened the Red Line this morning with subways running at full speed, without any speed restrictions, for the first time in years.
November 25, 2024
6-Day Service Interruption Near JFK/UMass Aims to Fix the Last Slow Zones On the Red Line
Shuttle buses are replacing Red Line subway service between Broadway and North Quincy stations from Tuesday, November 5th until Sunday, Nov. 10, for track work – one of the last scheduled service interruptions in the MBTA's year-long blitz to eliminate slow zones across the subway system.
November 5, 2024
The Orange Line Is Running At Full Speed For the First Time in 15 Years
The MBTA reopened the full length of the Orange Line on Saturday morning after a week-long closure for track work, and for the first time since Deval Patrick was the Governor of Massachusetts, the line's trains are running at full speed, without any speed restrictions.
November 2, 2024
For the First Time In Years, Orange Line Trains Are Running At Full Speed Through the SW Corridor
The MBTA's Orange Line reopened for service this morning after a 10-day closure, and the MBTA reports that the work erased 20 more slow zones from the subway system.
October 21, 2024
Orange Line Service In JP, Roxbury Is Taking A 13-Day Break For Track Work
The MBTA will attempt to fix some of its last remaining slow zones on the Orange Line with a 13-day closure through Oct. 20th on the segment south of Back Bay station.
October 7, 2024
Red Line’s Braintree Branch Reopens With 37 Fewer Slow Zones
By eliminating dozens of slow zones, the T expects the typical round-trip on this segment of the Red Line to run 24 minutes faster than it did a month ago.
September 30, 2024
Last Week’s Red Line Closure Fixed 6 More Slow Zones
Last week's closure of the Red Line downtown forced thousands of riders to endure long shuttle bus rides across traffic-clogged streets in downtown Boston – but it also allowed workers to fix six more slow zones between the Kendall/MIT and Park Street stations, resulting in subway trips that are one to three minutes faster between downtown Boston and Cambridge.
August 29, 2024
Downtown, South Boston Red Line Closure Extended Through Monday
The MBTA will shut down the core segment of the Red Line through downtown Boston this week, running bus shuttles in lieu of subways between Kendall/MIT and JFK/UMass from Monday, August 19 through the end of the day on Monday, August 26.
August 16, 2024
