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The Daily Free Press

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A Red Line train.

MBTA releases new interactive Speed Restriction Dashboard

Bailey Scott March 28, 2023
The new interactive map shows which tracks have speed restrictions, allowing for more transparency.
A green line train pulling into Kenmore station.

MBTA releases data on T slow zones as part of increased transparency efforts

Matthew Eadie March 1, 2023
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority published the T's “speed restrictions” in a report released Friday, making Boston the second city in the country, after Chicago, to have public data on its transit system's slow zones.
Haley Alvarez-Lauto | Graphic Artist

Improving the T isn’t just a want, it’s a need | EDITORIAL

Editors October 17, 2022
The T gets you where you need to go considerably on time and at a reasonable price — but our admiration for the system doesn’t mean we can’t ask for more. 
Haymarket station MBTA closed

Orange Line shutdowns inconvenience some students as the semester begins

Claire Law September 9, 2022
The month-long shut down of the Orange Line began Aug. 19.
An MBTA Green Line train at the Kenmore stop. PHOTO BY NATALIE CARROLL/ DFP FILE PHOTO

MBTA’s derailment and safety efforts ‘not sufficient,’ report finds

Samantha Day February 22, 2018
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority was found to be “not sufficient” in their efforts to guarantee safe operations on the Green Line, such as avoiding derailments, in a report by Protran Technology, a technology provider.
John Dalton has been hired as the new manager for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s Green Line Extension Project. PHOTO BY NATALIE CARROLL/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

MBTA Green Line Expansion continues with new project manager

Jordan Kimmel November 11, 2016

The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority hired former Chicago Transit Authority manager John Dalton as the project manager of the $2.3 billion Green Line Extension Project, according to a Monday...

A Red Line train carrying about 50 passengers drove for nine minutes and traveled more than five miles without a conductor before MBTA officials cut power to the third rail, stopping it near North Quincy Station Thursday morning. PHOTO COURTESY WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Red Line train departs station without operator

Carolyn Hoffman December 15, 2015

Following an inbound Red Line train’s departure from Braintree Station without an operator, officials from the Massachusetts Department of Transportation and the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority...

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