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One commuter rail line will go to reduced service through to the fall during a full replacement of its tracks.
The Green Line Extension opened in 2022 but last year, MBTA officials said they had discovered that the tracks had been built too close together and required new construction to fix.
LINE HAS SEEN POWER PROBLEMS AND PASSENGERS SAY THEY’RE FED UP FOR THE THIRD TIME IN DAYS. POWER PROBLEMS STOPPING TRAINS ON PART OF THE GREEN LINE, LEAVING PASSENGERS FRUSTRATE. AND THERE IS NO ...
It may be new, but the problems plaguing the MBTA's Green Line Extension are very old for long-time T riders. The agency announced Thursday new problems for the already troublesome section of the ...
MBTA General Manager Philip Eng made a stunning admission Thursday, telling reporters the Green Line extension is riddled with so many defects — far more than previously disclosed — that ...
BOSTON - The MBTA says a large portion of track on the Green Line Extension needs to be fixed because they are too narrow. General Manager Phillip Eng said 50% of the tracks on the Union Branch ...
TONIGHT, FRUSTRATION MOUNTS AS THE MBTA REVEALS A NEW $2.3 BILLION GREEN LINE EXTENSION HAS DEFECTIVE TRACKS. 50% OF THE UNION BRANCH REQUIRES REGAUGING AND 80% PLUS OR MINUS REQUIRES REGAUGING ON ...
The MBTA’s General Manager Phil Eng says problems with the new Green Line Extension are more extensive than first thought. The tracks’ prefabricated ties were built with the rail gauge too narrow and ...
BOSTON (WHDH) - Problems with the MBTA’s new 4.4-mile Green Line Extension are so severe that the agency will need to widen more than two-thirds of the nearly brand-new tracks, officials ...
The MBTA has restored service to Union Square ahead of schedule and lifted all speed restrictions on the Green Line Extension, Phillip Eng, MBTA general manager and CEO, announced in an Oct. 11 press ...
The roughly $2.3 billion Green Line Extension project was completed last December, with a new branch that starts in Medford at the Tufts/College Avenue station and adds four stops in Somerville.
At long last, the Green Line Extension, the $2.3 billion project extending ... That train, which carried MBTA General Manager Steven Poftak and Jumbo, the Tufts elephant mascot, was packed.