Red Line

Helpful presentation from the T on what to expect when in the way of capacity and reliability improvements. Bottom line: Improvement will be steady and will reach their maximum level around 2025.

We will continue to add communications from the MBTA about the Alewife Garage situation to this post.

Red Line service has been unstable over the past few weeks and I’ve heard from many about that, but there is reason for hope, in the long term, for big increases in both reliability and capacity.

Will, since you posted the information about the poor service on the Red Line, it seems like it’s gotten worse — or at least no better.  Yesterday the train I was on at evening rush hour sat at Charles for at least 15 minutes, the engineer saying helplessly, “We can’t move, there’s no where to […]

When will our local governments and legislators finally take on the MBTA and its shoddy operation? Setting aside the attention-grabbing incident of the Orange Line last night, the day-to-day delays are making it impossible to rely on mass transit. I have run into 30-45 minute delay of service delays three times this week – and […]

In the last two weeks Red Line MBTA has been dreadful during evening hours between 5 and 6 pm home bound from work.  Since October  10th 2016 the Red Line has made long haul stops breaks between Park and Harvard stating that there is a problem with signals at Alewife station. This is an on-going […]