MBTA Completes Red Line Improvements; Removes 8 Speed Restrictions
BOSTON – The MBTA reports it completed track work along its Red Line between February 5th to February 14th, allowing them to remove 8 speed restrictions.
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MBTA Submits Revised Work Plan to FTA
MASSACHUSETTS – The MBTA submits a new safety plan to the FTA after its’ first plan was rejected.
MBTA Reopens Alewife Station Garage, Repairs Continue After Car Accident
The parking garage at the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s Alewife Station has now partially reopened after a vehicle crashed into it earlier in the week, the MBTA announced on Feb. 7.
RIDOT Sets Opening Date for MBTA Pawtucket Station
The Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) recently announced that the Pawtucket-Central Falls train station, which will connect the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s (MBTA) Commuter Rail service with the R.I. Public Transit Authority’s bus service at Pine Street in Pawtucket, could open on Jan. 23, according to a 12 News report.
MBTA Celebrates Opening of Green Line’s $2.3B Medford Branch Extension
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) celebrated the opening of the agency’s $2.3 billion Medford Branch of the Green Line Extension on Dec. 12.
MBTA makes major upgrades at Orange Line Wellington Yard and Maintenance Facility
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) is working on significant upgrades to their Wellington Yard and Maintenance Facility, located in Medford, Mass.
MBTA Gloucester Drawbridge service restoration expected May 2022
MBTA has been working on the railroad.
MBTA caps massive capital spending fiscal year with accelerated construction on Green Line
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) announced that from Monday, Aug. 2, through Sunday, Aug. 29, crews will work around the clock to replace outdated track including ties, ballast, and rail as well as pavement on the Green Line E Branch between South Huntington Avenue and Brigham Circle Station.
First leg of MBTA third-track project is now in motion
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s (MBTA) Fiscal and Management Control Board has given the OK for $28 million in design work for a third-track project between the West Natick commuter rail station and Wellesley Farms.
MBTA to perform challenging rail measurements over next four years
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) has awarded Advanced Rail Management, Corp., (ARM) a four-year contract with two option years for optical rail measurement services.
MBTA: accelerated Green Line D branch track and signal replacement work to take place for 18 days
The MBTA’s Green Line Transformation program (GLT) will accelerate the Green Line D Track and Signal Replacement Project to complete the most disruptive track replacement work by early fall 2021.
Boston’s Green Line Extension on schedule and on budget
The Green Line Extension in Boston should be ripe with activity come 2022. The $2.3 billion project remains on schedule for a late 2021 completion.
Bells & Whistles—LIRR project stopped after worker electrocuted
Ambitious capital plan of New York’s MTA is now back on track thanks to federal relief MTA launches safety investigation after LIRR third track electrocution Washington Metro puts workers in danger during
Derailment forces MBTA to take new trains out of service, repair infrastructure
When it’s new and shiny, the last thing you want to see is dents and dings.
Bells & Whistles—Norfolk Southern cancels rail project after city files with STB
New Jersey releases grants for rail/bridge maintenance and new construction Winter weather wallops Class 1 roads MBTA’s Phase 1 work of South Coast Rail is moving along Norfolk Southern does everything right
MBTA’s Phase 1 work of South Coast Rail is moving along
Phase 1 of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s South Coast Rail construction is alive and well.
New renewable energy contracts in effect at MBTA
Taking effect this week, two new 100% renewable energy contracts with BP Energy Company and Direct Energy LLC will reduce the MBTA’s carbon footprint and save the T over $3 million per
Keolis Commuter Rail to temporarily operate reduced service schedule starting Dec. 14
The MBTA and Keolis Commuter Services announced today that, due to low employee availability because of COVID-19 absences, Commuter Rail will temporarily operate a Reduced Service Schedule starting Monday, December 14. Regular
MBTA looks to cut service to recently refurbished track due to pandemic
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) recently refurbished a section of the Green Line E Branch in Boston’s Mission Hill neighborhood. Now the agency is going to preserve it, but not necessarily
Traffic detours at Monsignor O’Brien Highway in Cambridge this weekend, August 8 and 9
The MBTA announced [yesterday] it will continue to advance with another series of major crane lifts this weekend at the new Lechmere Viaduct now under construction between the Gilmore Bridge and Lechmere