Category: MBTA Operations

Legislators step onto the T for a taste of riders’ experience

State Representative Marjorie Decker took the Red Line to work. Photo: STEVE ANNEAR/GLOBE STAFF

Boston Globe | By Steve Annear | March 19, 2015 It had been more than a year since State Representative Marjorie Decker took the Red Line to work, but as she boarded a crowded train at Harvard Square before 9 a.m. Thursday, it all came back to her. “It’s like riding a bike,” she said. …

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Opinion: MBTA only one part of a fragile transportation network

AP/FILE. The T is not the only part of the transportation network that needs to be updated. Earlier this month, cars were gridlocked on Beacon Street.

Opinion: Boston Globe | By Kristina Egan | FEBRUARY 27, 2015 The MBTA’s performance in the record snow and cold temperatures gives us a glimpse of a possible future — one in which our transportation system completely fails us. When the T shuts down, businesses and workers lose millions of dollars. The torturous driving commutes …

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Transit activists hopeful MBTA shut downs will spur investment in system

City residents’ patience wore thin in January and February as successive snowstorms made mbta bus, subway and commuter rail performance unreliable. BANNER PHOTO

Sandra Larson | Bay State Banner | 2/25/2015 In the aftermath of the historic January and February snowstorms in Boston that led to transit shutdowns, stuck trains, borrowed shuttle buses and frustrating delays at frigid platforms, the MBTA announced it could be another 30 days before full service resumes on its rail lines. If the …

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