MBTA Orange Line travel times after maintenance makeover flushed out by transit nerds at Transit Matters #mbta #charliebaker #mayorkoch

MBTA Orange Line travel times after maintenance makeover flushed out by Transit nerds at Transit Matters

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– News covered by Quincy Quarry News with commentary added.

We are the MBTA – get used to it.
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Roughly three weeks after the purported to be completion of an emergency maintenance makeover that entailed a month-long shutdown of Orange Line rail service, not only has the week or so said to be needed for the redone tracks to settle before so-called “slow zones” along the Orange Line might be lifted not happened as promised, train speeds have instead decreased from before the shutdown and thus travel times have so increased to even longer than was the case before the maintenance makeover.

How bad are things?

The transit quaints at not-for-profit public transit advocacy organization Transit Matters hit the rails and so found that not only are slow zones are more numerous than before the makeover, but also that the so-resultant delays are delaying travel times by upwards of 20% more than was the case before the makeover was undertaken.

Nothing like a little planning.
In fact, nothing like it at all.
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Even worse yet, the Transit Matters geeks have determined that traveling from one end of the Orange Line to the other is currently taking roughly twice as long as would be the case if the Orange Line was running at its designed speeds.

Further, with Orange trains also running less frequently in additional to more slowly, straphangers are so also facing longer net/net travel times given their having to both face even longer waits for trains as well as that trains are also more crowded.

Then again, quelle surprise that the MBTA taking action would result in making travel times even longer.

Also no great surprise is that essentially all regional media have exposéd the MBTA over the still ongoing problems and service delays along the Orange Line.

Even more troubling, however also only to be expected, the MBTA has so far not responded with any particulars as to when long-suffering straphangers can hope that the now more numerous slow zones might (perhaps, ed.) finally be lifted. 

Has anyone seen Tommy recently?
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In particular, Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch, who is also both both the senior member of the MBTA Board of Directors as well as the decade-long Chair of the MBTA Advisory Board, has recently been all but MIA except for the most carefully staged and yet all but unannounced of photo ops such as the recent relocation of the evocative as well as beloved Lillie statutes of Abigail Adams with a young John Quincy Adams and John Adams to a place of much less prominence in Merrymount Park.

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