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[themissinglink]

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Red Line: Shuttle buses are currently replacing service between Braintree and JFK/UMass due to a derailed maintenance vehicle at Wollaston.

 

[as02143]

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Over by 6:30 a.m.

 

[bakgwailo]

Anyone know if during these longer shutdowns if the new signaling system install work was also accelerated on either the Red or Orange?

 

[RandomWalk]

The GM update slide deck from the August MBTA board meeting mentioned that the OL signal work is 50% complete and the RL is 57% complete.

 

[Stlin]

The GM update slide deck from the August MBTA board meeting mentioned that the OL signal work is 50% complete and the RL is 57% complete.

Err I'm going to call that not a good thing, at least as far as the Red Line is concerned - by the Oct 6 2023 Weekly progress report, RL signals were at 55% percent. 2 percent in the course of 11 months isn't moving it forward. At least the concomitant OL report was 30%, But the entire OL/RL signals program was supposed to be complete in by fall 2024 - they've since updated that to Fall 2027 on the projects page.

https://cdn.mbta.com/sites/default/files/2023-10-6-red-line-transformation-week-in-review.pdf

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[Digital_Islandboy]

The last Red Line closure seems to be pretty successful - even Transit Matter's dashboard today only has a minor slowdown Central -> Kendall (which is the sole slow zone the MBTA tracker flags as a 25pmh+ zone). Otherwise Alewife to Andrew is all clear, and JFK to Ashmont is still holding well. It does seem that once the Braintree branch closure is done we might really be looking at a slow free Red Line.

edit: this is what I get for posting with a stale version of the thread open, rather redundant on my part.

I don't know if this is why but equipment gets on and off the Red Line tracks on the Cambridge-side of Longfellow Bridge where they have a gate to get in/out of the Red Line.

These pics were the weekend / Monday, August 26, 2024 shutdown on RL. I was just watching them race up and down the bridge.