Delvin4519
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The Ashmont Branch is only seeing half as many trains each day compared to pre-COVID. Pre-COVID, the Red Line saw 223 roundtrips with 112 roundtrips on the Ashmont branch. Now, since March 2023, the Red Line is only managing to run 127 roundtrips on weekdays only, with at most 64 roundtrips weekdays on the Ashmont branch.These tracks see anywhere from 100-400 trains per day. Things break, it's to be expected. If systems for regular repair are working then it will be gone within a week, at worst two. This is exactly the type of work that night maintenance should be used for, so it shouldn't require any extra closures.
If the Red Line is only running half of the pre-COVID service, that means the tracks would only have a fraction of the beating it would've normally gotten pre-COVID. The Ashmont Branch is only seeing trains every 22 minutes off peak and every 18 minutes rush hour. It's not pre-COVID when it used to be every 13 minutes off peak and every 9 minutes peak. The tracks should last a bit more longer than just 3 months if only half the trains run?
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