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A few more stats… At 46 active cars, new cars now make up 23% of the active Red Line fleet (46/198). Legacy fleet retirement continues apace, with only 18 Pullmans (14 01500s and 4 01600s) remaining on the active roster. Conventional wisdom has been that the 01600s were all but retired, but I...

The garage shutdowns required turning back trains at North Station from the north, which the turnback is not designed to do. The early garage shutdowns had trains make an adverse move through the turnback crossover without signal protection, requiring that the interlocking be put on hand-throw...

The removal of cab signals wouldn't have any bearing on the feasibility of the MBTA running west of Worcester—they already can't because none of their equipment has I-ETMS PTC. As you mention, the jurisdictional hurdles are the much bigger issue anyway. The cab signal decommissioning and I-ETMS...

I saw crews doing manual ridership counts at Gilman a few months back, but I don't know when that data might be released. Manual counts are, as far as I can tell, the only way to get reliable ridership estimates given that the vast majority of riders do not "validate" their fares (for which I...

Also worth noting is that CRRC was able to deliver 3 pairs of new cars in July (two for Red and one for Orange). They'd been keeping a pace of 2 pairs per month for a while. Hopefully they're able to keep it up and it's not just a one-off.

My first guess would be the South Station bus terminal, but maybe you consider that part of the larger "transportation facility" of South Station? Otherwise, all I've got are various railroad lines that were included in the big line sale packages in the 1970s but that don't have passenger service.

Also noteworthy is that the MBTA is reverting the changes made to Route 90 back in June "pending roadway changes from the City of Somerville" and returning it to operate via Cross Street and Broadway instead of via Washington Street, though the release hints at "future changes to Route 88/90...

Based on my observations, the 66 and 86 currently loop around Cambridge Common via Waterhouse Street to lay over after alighting in the upper busway, as the 71 and 73 did in the trackless trolley era (and are planned to when left-door-equipped BEBs enter service at North Cambridge). However...

The BNRD interactive map has been updated to reflect this reroute, but the static PDF map (which has not been updated) shows that the routing was originally expected to be mostly unchanged, except that the route would be revised to (somewhat controversially, IIRC) bypass Sullivan to go directly...

I'm not sure this is necessarily a sign of larger BNRD-related changes. While these improvements do match what's slated for those routes under BNRD, it's more or less just restoring pre-COVID service levels other than the introduction of Sunday service (for the first time ever in the MBTA era!)...

Yes, the 11/2029 date for the Red Line derives from the current rate of overall deliveries — assuming 4 cars/month split across Orange and Red until the OL order is done and then all for Red.

NETransit was updated last week, so here's a status update on the Orange and Red fleets: CRRC has been keeping up its current delivery rate of 4 cars per month (2 per line) that they've been doing for a while, but that's still half the production rate set under the original contract of 8 cars...

I think it mostly depends on how well the legacy fleet holds up. It seems that the T wants the oldest cars (01500/01600 series from 1969) gone ASAP which has spurred the introduction of four-car trains. The 01700 series (from the late 1980s) was refurbished between 2011 and 2016 so those cars...

The graphs are showing production figures for married pairs, not individual cars, so that translates to 92 Red Line cars delivered in 2026. That's nearly double the current production rate that CRRC has managed to achieve, though the original contract specified a rate of 8 cars per month.

Does anyone know of a good channel to report customer service or other operational/service issues to the T? (For example, there was vomit on the floor of the Red Line train I was riding on Saturday.) I used to use Twitter for this, but I'm no longer there, and while the MBTA has an official...

The press release for this service change notes that the specific work being performed is "special track work near Ashmont," which would be the switches and crossovers used to reverse trains south of the station. The inability to switch trains between the southbound and northbound tracks at...

It's worth noting both that the MBTA and CTA contracts were originally awarded to CRRC's predecessor companies, CNR and CSR, respectively. (CSR also bid on the MBTA order, but was disqualified after the technical evaluation phase.) The MBTA order was also originally smaller—284 cars—before...

The TransitHistory roster was recently updated with a note that 4202 (the bus pictured above) has been delivered to Cabot for testing. I don't know how long that process takes, but there's some slow progress.

I believe it’s unrelated, because there are several hand-throw crossovers posted at 25 or 30 mph. But as F-Line noted, they’re unlikely to change it any time soon given the recent derailment.

Green Line rules only allow a maximum speed of 10 mph within interlocking limits (i.e. over automatic switches), so 10 mph is the “normal” maximum speed there. (My hope is that the T eventually changes this rule, because that section in particular is brutal.)