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Orange Line running even slower in slow zones after month-long shutdown for a major maintenance makeover
– News about Quincy covered by Quincy Quarry News with commentary added.
STILL no light at the end of the tunnel …
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Orange Line trains are still running slow two and a half weeks after rail service was resumed after a month-long major maintenance makeover shutdown and so subjecting straphangers to suffering bus shuttle substitute service.
In fact, not only are the slowdowns in slow zones on the Orange Lines continuing for longer than the week or so originally touted by the MBTA as needed to allow the redone track to settle before trains could finally resume traveling at designed speeds, its trains are now running even slower than before the shutdown of rail service so as to endeavor the makeover.
Riding the rails …
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Further disconcerting, the even slower and thus longer Orange Line rail service would appear to have only come to light care of straphangers complaining as opposed to duly announced upfront by the MBTA.
So what for the fact that how the MBTA responded to deserved criticism about now apparently even slower trains was that it had some extra material left over after the month-long rail service shutdown and so decided to do more work without announcing same, much less duly noting that this additional work will also result in even more travel time yet to be disclosed so as to allow the additional track work to settle before the slow zone speed restrictions might be lifted.
MIA when it comes to the T
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In other words, so much for the one and be done with things claim that was the basis for shutting down Orange Line rail service for a month to complete what had been purported to be a comprehensive maintenance makeover.
Also as well as needless to say, Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch, the senior member of the MBTA Board of Directors as well as the decade long Chair of the MBTA Advisory Board, is not available to Quincy Quarry News for comment about this latest Charlie Foxtrot inflicted upon long-suffering straphangers by the MBTA.
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Everything that Koch touches turn into an expensive pile of sh*t!
When is the MBTA going to wake up and throw Tom Koch under a bus?
Koch’s four qualifications to sit his fat ass on two MBTA boards are the four Red Line stations in the city, making every Quincy resident equally qualified to take over those “juicy” board seats!
Plus, before becoming mayor, the man kept the city’s grass cut and managed a bunch of baseball fields; what the f*ck does he bring to the table, except for his gold folk!
MBTA commuters must file a class action suit against the MBTA’s General Manager, and every one of its Board of Directors’ members.
Enough is enough!
When will people start going to jail?
Ms Collins,
Contractors, MBTA peeps or both? Asking for a friend.