MBTA Broadway To JFK UMass theoretical train rate capacity to be back to normal by August 15

After a June derailment that knocked out the signal system, the MBTA is expecting a part of the Red Line capacity to return to “normal” by August 15.

Damage done by derailment at JFK station
A Jacquelyn Goodard/MassDOT image

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MBTA Broadway To JFK UMass theoretical train rate capacity to be back to normal by August 15.

As was at least generally predicted by the sage hands in Quincy Quarry’s newsroom, late Friday MBTA officials rolled out less than good news about the abysmal state of intrastate transportation so as take advantage of the usually slow weekend news cycle.

For a change, however, the whole of actually disconcerting news was spun into seemingly good news.

MBTA service …
A Statco Communications graphic

Who knew that the MBTA was capable of cunning linguistics as opposed to just screwing things?

In any event, the MBTA creatively announced its expectation that (theoretical, ed.) normal train cycling rates between its Broadway and JFK stations will be possible by August 15 when repairs to equipment damaged during a Red Line train derailment last month are expected to be sufficiently completed to allow more trains to cycle through the Broadway/JFK corridor on an hourly basis.

Strap hangers, roof riders – whatever
Image from indosurflife.com

At the same time, the MBTA concurrently downplayed the fact that train cycling rates will continue to remain degraded on both the Ashmont and Braintree lines south of the T’s JFK station until various other also needed repairs are duly completed. 

As such, Red Line hourly train capacity will remain below its theoretical maximum.

Busted Red Line train
Image taken by MBTA passenger Catherine Groux

As simply put as possible, if train capacity rates per hour on the Ashmont and Braintree lines remain downgraded, such limits the (theoretical, ed.) capacity on the whole of the Red Line as these lines merge at the MBTA’s JFK station and their respective trains then travel on to points generally northerly until the Red Line terminates at its Alewife station in Cambridge.

Source: Red Line Expected To Be Back To Normal From Broadway To JFK UMass By Aug. 15

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