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Looks like as of today Wellington->Sullivan slow zone has been lifted: Glad to finally see movement on the southbound side of things.

It’s also worth noting that northbound travel times along the entire line are finally back down to their pre-shutdown numbers: Southbound not at all:

Found something! According to this, you have to sign up for MassDOT email updates to get the update sheets, don’t know why they don’t post it somewhere. Maybe this person will tweet them out every day though.

Is there a list somewhere of all the projects/ locations that are included as a part of the Orange line shutdown? Everything I can find on the T’s website seems pretty vague as opposed to something like the Green Line branch closure pages, which have maps with all the work areas and activities...

https://www.boston.gov/news/city-offers-free-bluebikes-ahead-mbta-orange-line-shutdown Free 30-day passes for Bluebikes as mitigation for the Orange Line shutdown - wonder how many people will take advantage.

I wonder if this is to finally fix the speed restriction over the Lechmere viaduct? Can’t imagine what else it would be for on a brand new line (unless it’s to do some last-minute tie-in work for the Medford Branch).

That‘s the main reason I’m fine with them pulling trains now, while they still can without major disruptions, though I didn’t realize we‘re almost at that point already with the Orange line. Ideally fixing all of this now means we don’t have a disaster like the 7000 cars being pulled in DC while...

I think things were even worse back then. It says 2 miles of Green Line is under speed restrictions, mostly in the Central Subway, my guess is before all the track work they’ve been doing on the surface branches that number would have been much higher although I don’t have data to back that up...

I‘m happy they’re mandating that Orange Line work at least. Doesn’t matter how new the train is, the 8 minutes it takes to go the two stops from Tufts to Mass Ave right now is painful. All the lack of training stuff is just embarrassing, hopefully a lot of changes come out of this.

The Worcester third track project from I-95 to Framingham will include a decent amount of speed improvements, some sections designed for 90 mph- not sure if anything is planned for beyond Framingham though.

Timelapse of the route just posted by the MBTA

A fun context map from the PNF- Link This seems like near-perfect development to me - a lot of housing filling vacant space, it’ll likely be filled almost entirely with college students, justifying the low parking numbers and opening up more of the older housing on Mission Hill for families, and...

They’ve been doing accessibility upgrades on Science Park over the last couple weeks, so that would also explain the lack of reopening. (Source)

You‘re right, I misread. The report is at Link, has a lot of info about various projects going on.

One bit of info from the accessibility report: 52 cars delivered so far for the Orange Line, current pace is 2 per month (or a new train every 3 months) EDIT: 4 cars per month, my bad. 100 new cars still to be delivered, so hopefully they pick up the pace soon. Nothing about new cars for the red...

Yeah, the existing surface had to be sanded down for the epoxy to adhere better. The guardrails were definitely replaced as well, though I don't know too much about the specifics of that that other than watching it happen. It's a really cool system, I hadn't heard of using carbon fiber for...

Hello, I've been lurking for a couple months but this was worth making an account for. The arches on this bridge are actually being strengthened with carbon fiber sheets. The white pasty stuff on the arch is the epoxy being used to adhere the carbon to the concrete, and the black sheet that the...