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That page hasn't been updated in a while. Barring some insane miracle, I don't see any way the Orange Line order is done this year and neither does anyone else. Presumably, they meant up to 14 new train cars whenever this was last updated (out of 18 train cars/3 sets at that time). It doesn't...

There are no trips from Haymarket as trains are not running between North Station and Government Center. Due to the abysmal turnback procedure at North Station, frequencies are reduced; and trip data from North Station is not available as is typically the case during diversions. The median...

Correct, 1478/79 apparently arrived last week per a friend (and that checks out with Gonneville's statement about 4 cars being delivered - 2 last week, 2 this week).

Per Gonneville's board meeting update, the car was successfully delivered yesterday with no damage and 3 other cars were also delivered. This means 1478 through 1481 are now delivered. Additionally, pair 1474/1475 has now entered revenue service.

A Globe columnist published a piece today about the CRRC factory being a tire fire. It's officially an opinion piece (click here to read) but it cited a letter quietly sent just before Christmas by Mark DeVitto, MBTA Deputy Director of Vehicle Engineering, to CRRC. To say the letter to CRRC is...

BSRA (which runs the transit history log) has confirmed at several meetings that the MBTA has not gotten any deliveries since June. All 152 carbodies are indeed complete for the Orange Line (as you pointed out, this is as of late September when the MBTA provided an update at a board meeting)...

Yes, they did. Seemed to have backtracked on that, even though peak hour frequencies have been increased slightly on Red and significantly on Blue. No indication of why (could either be just they like the optics of only running new trains, or could be a concern about the Hawkers largely sitting...

Only the Type 9 that came from Riverside was signed as College Ave (presumably, any B/C type 9's would be the same, as all three branches will send an early morning trip to Medford daily). A Type 9 on the E is extraordinarily rare but it appears the signage would be Medford/Tufts in that case...

I was on the first revenue train. Barely fit in; I was there early yet the crowd on the platform was so overwhelming that I was the last one onto the Type 7 and had to stand on the stairs. Worth it.

Looks like it was also absent for the Union Square opening:

Yes, this is correct. Don't want to mix up the incoming rolling stock with the rolling stock it will be replacing on the same line; naming the new series the 13's would definitely cause some confusion with overlapping numbers on the same line.

There will also be a weekend diversion on the Braintree Branch on Sat 12/3 and Sun 12/4. Going by the transitmatters tracker (pretty accurate though it can leave out minor slow zones, such as the residual minor slow zone from Back Bay to Tufts on the Orange Line), it looks like of the...

There's a Board of Directors meeting that just started. I wonder if we get an announcement on the date today, but it would be on-brand for them to announce it at the last possible moment. Watch it be "the first train leaves Medford at 11:59:59 pm on November 30" and they'll be like "see? it...

I'm pretty sure bigpicture7 was joking (given the not-infrequent Green Line catenary/power problems).

Some major movement with Orange and Red Line slow zones this week! I'm going to attempt to address all the areas that the MBTA cited this week as still being slow, along with a few others (I don't have a ton of time this evening sadly). Orange Line North of North Station Northbound: the North...

Wow. I don't believe it. The MBTA managed to lift the brutal (over 3 minute) slow zone between Central and Harvard northbound on the Red Line today, and they were able to do it only using overnight work periods. I'm genuinely shocked.

My question is why, all of a sudden, does Community College to North Station (and back) have a line speed of 25 mph? It's designed for a limit of at least 40 mph and, as I recall, was running at 40 mph this spring and part of the summer.

Yeah, I think they are a bit too short-sighted with all this, especially the communication. Constantly moving the goalposts, changing the explanation, and flat-out lying to the media and the public is going to increase distrust in the agency. And the last thing the city needs is more people...

Honestly, I wouldn't put it past them, but the backlash would be .... intense.

This does not sound normal, to put it kindly.