Quincy Quarry News Weekly Fish Wrap: Slow, slower and slowest yet to come? #mbta

Quincy Quarry News Weekly Fish Wrap: Slow, slower and slowest yet to come?

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– News covered by Quincy Quarry News with commentary added.

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Quincy Quarry News Weekly Fish Wrap: Slow, slower and slowest yet to come?

Local media most well-warrantedly continue to pile on the MBTA over how its service on the Orange Line is still running slower than before it was shutdown two months ago for a month-long emergency maintenance makeover so as to endeavor to fix the Orange Line’s myriad of problems.

The free-access subsidiary of the Boston broadsheet randomly polled Orange Line straphangers and was advised that their commutes were running as much as a third longer than before the maintenance makeover rail service shutdown.

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The interview results pulled no punches.

So-called “slow zones” continue as well as are more numerous than before the month long shutdown of rail service.

Thus not only so much for the MBTA’s original claim that the slow zones would go away after a week or so so that the redone track could settle in and so be ready for trains to travel at their designed speeds,

Instead, “(o)fficials at the MBTA continue to say that these speed restrictions will be lifted soon, but has yet to provide a specific date.”

In short, will the MBTA ever return? 

MBTA suits hiding under a train?
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To something at least approximating its pre-makeover shutdown level of service, that is.

To this end, Quincy Quarry hit the rails this week and also so found things slow.

Granted, the Quarry’s limited test rides did not happen upon any equipment fails or related station holds of trains given problems elsewhere; even so, both the Orange and Red lines were found to be slow rolling.

Charitably at best, that is.

Finally, moving onto the local front, the long Columbus Day holiday weekend mitigated the Quarry’s busting the Koch Machine’s stones. 

Even so, expect a kneeing below the belt to soon follow.

In fact, multiple kneeings, if not also kneecappings.

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