Trackless Mattapan Line.
Lee Toma surveyed the Mattapan Line and the Red Line Ashmont branch, now in the thick of the MBTA's 16-day repair "surge."
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A Lot Of People Working On It Today
By John Costello
Mon, 10/16/2023 - 11:40am
If past is prologue with the T, it isn't here.
There were a lot of workers and machinery out on the tracks between Harrison Square and JFK at 8 this morning.
It looks like Phil Eng has lit a fire under a lot of arses. Good job for that.
Agreed
By Cleary Squared
Mon, 10/16/2023 - 12:29pm
I think Eng saw how the Orange Line was shut down for a month last year, and the backpedaling ("oh, the rails have to settle before we let the trains go at full speed") and the speed restrictions that followed when the rails were not up to snuff, and does not want a repeat of that debacle.
Hopefully they'll do the same with the rest of the Red Line; the speed restrictions between Central and Harvard and between JFK/UMass and North Quincy must be driving people insane.
Live on the Mattapan line and
By dotORnot
Mon, 10/16/2023 - 12:59pm
Live on the Mattapan line and they have been working around the clock since Saturday morning.
Yeah
By bgl
Tue, 10/17/2023 - 12:20am
But it's a bit weird that they have a person posted up at every temp bus stop on the line (one for each side). Seems a bit overkill.
If they didn't
By ElizaLeila
Tue, 10/17/2023 - 11:03am
Someone, not necessarily you, would complain there was no one to tell someone where to go to get the shuttle.
At this rate, overkill is better.
I guess
By bgl
Tue, 10/17/2023 - 1:35pm
But, bustitition on the line is a fairly frequent thing at this point. I was taking it during the first big shutdown in that winter years ago and it was a cluster: stops not marked, drivers themselves had no idea where they were going and we had to give directions. Which was kind of great, as I generally got dropped off much closer to my house at my new special stop. That said, they T had gotten much better at it over the years and this time have pretty big and good signage for stops and the route down pretty well, and riders have been doing this off and on for years now.
I don't think people are going to get confused.
NewHaven RR
By ForesstGrump
Mon, 10/16/2023 - 11:50am
Hey...give the T some credit.
They have successfully avoided rebuilding this roadbed for almost a hundred years.
Some of the crossties and ballast date to the 1920s when the Boston El bought that rightofway from New Haven RR.
Thats okay though cause the new work will result in some decrease in wait times.
Maybe.
Kind of.
Hopefully....
Lots of yellow Yankee Line buses at JFK this morning
By necturus
Mon, 10/16/2023 - 12:54pm
What pisses me off is that the rest of the Red Line is running only one train every 14 minutes -- during peak hours!
buses
By cybah
Mon, 10/16/2023 - 1:15pm
Thats what I always love about shuttle buses.
There's plenty of them and you might even get there faster than the service they are replacing..
but only god knows how long you'll wait to make the connection wherever they drop you off at because of overcrowding or lack-there-of-service.
No thanks
By anon
Mon, 10/16/2023 - 1:36pm
I’ll drive my car to work, let me know when the repairs are completed.
How much does this tiny line cost?
By anon
Mon, 10/16/2023 - 4:48pm
Replace it with a bus.
Which Line, the ashmont branch that is shutdown?
By bgl
Tue, 10/17/2023 - 12:22am
Or you mean the HSL? Cause neither will ever get replaced with buses.
That tiny line covers a lot
By Don't Panic
Tue, 10/17/2023 - 1:25am
That tiny line covers a lot of Boston neighborhoods. Some of which I've only heard about since becoming a UHUB member. It's also the only public transit line in America that passes through a cemetery so it's got that going for it too.
Charlie
By cybah
Tue, 10/17/2023 - 8:48am
Charlie Baker.. is that you?
Lol!
By Lee
Tue, 10/17/2023 - 9:13pm
Good one!
Replace yourself with a bus!!
By Lee
Tue, 10/17/2023 - 9:12pm
Hands off the High Speed Line!!
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