MBTA finally acknowledges Orange Line still running slow but offers no timeline for becoming less slow #mbta #mayorkoch #charliebaker

MBTA finally acknowledges Orange Line still running slow but offers no timeline for becoming less slow

– News covered by Quincy Quarry News with commentary added.

Still no light at the end of the tunnel
Image care of Curbed Boston/Lost New England

After almost three workweeks since Orange Line rail service resumed, travel times on it are still slower than snow removal in Quincy after merely but a middling winter snow storm.

Even more ugly for the MBTA, the Boston Broadsheet has chimed in with data that confirms that Orange Line service is running even slower than before it underwent a month-long emergency maintenance makeover that was touted would eliminate the slow zones after the redone track settled in after a week or thereabouts in use.

“Adding to riders’ frustrations has been a lack of communication from the MBTA about why the slowdowns have continued.”

For example, the T did not offer a target date or even merely but a vague timeline as to when speed restrictions might perhaps be lifted.

Faking it for, well, decades
An ill-advised selfie Facebook posting

Additionally, Quincy Quarry News was specifically unable to find out from the MBTA if Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch, who is both the senior member of the MBTA Board of Directors as well as the decade long Chair of the MBTA Advisory Board, may have loaned out his spokesmodel Pinocchio Walkbacker to help the T obfuscate its woeful outbound communications as the T’s recent output is a mirror image of how bovine byproduct is shoveled out of Quincy’s City Hall.

Source: MBTA admits to ongoing slow zones on Orange Line beyond 7-day ‘settling’ period

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