We Warned You about the MBTA Before Many: ORANGE LINE IMPACTS MEDFORD AS MUCH AS THE NEW GREEN LINE

 The MBTA’s top official indicated the agency plans to shut down an entire subway line to do track work and urged the T’s oversight board Wednesday to approve a big contract for shuttle buses.

The board meeting came a day after the Globe reported that the T is considering a 30-day shutdown of the Orange Line later this month.

“Obviously it’s already been well covered in the press, the idea here is that by shutting down a line in its entirety, it allows us to do multiple projects,” said MBTA General Manager Steve Poftak. “It allows us around-the-clock access.” https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/08/03/metro/baker-will-deliver-update-mbta-service-t-said-be-considering-orange-line-30-day-shutdown/

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The focus of the diversions, which Poftak said would take place on the Orange Line and the Green Line, will be track maintenance. The board approved a $37 million contract with A Yankee Line for “Orange Line Diversion” shuttle buses around Aug. 19 to Sept. 18.

take the MBTA at your own risk these days: ‘I saw blood everywhere.’ Witnesses describe horrific Back Bay MBTA escalator malfunction  http://medfordinformationcentral.blogspot.com/2021/09/take-mbta-at-your-own-risk-these-days-i.html 

Time for radical action at the T

As an example, we should consider making it free  https://commonwealthmagazine.org/transportation/time-for-radical-action-at-the-t/

 JOSEPH CURTATONE Oct 9, 2019

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THIS PAST FRIDAY the MBTA had to empty out the station at Central Square in Cambridge because a Red Line car was billowing smoke. The service has experienced fires along the Orange and Green lines in recent months too. That’s not counting numerous derailments, one of which caused more than 100 days of reduced service on the Red Line this summer. We are watching our core public transit service fall apart right in front of us.

It is a problem 100 percent of our own making. We starved the MBTA of needed maintenance funding for decades and neglected to build out the service to match the region’s growing population. It’s left us with a relic rather than an essential service that makes our region work better. It’s supposed to give people a viable way of getting around without a car so that our roads aren’t clogged. Yet in 2019 Greater Boston finds itself with the worst traffic in the nation and regular breakdowns on the MBTA.