MBTA chief: South Coast Rail testing is over. These are the project's 'final steps'
MBTA general manager Phillip Eng says South Coast Rail is "real." Here are the final steps before the project gets rolling.
‘Heavy and hopeful’: Boston volunteers canvas city for homeless census
Last night, hundreds of volunteers conducted Boston's annual homeless census. The amount of new faces was "striking." ...
Red Line branch’s maximum speed increasing to 50 mph, MBTA says
The MBTA announced that the Braintree branch of the Red Line will be increasing speeds as a result of the Track Improvement ...
MBTA hopes to speed up Red and Orange line trains "within days"
The MBTA wants to bring the Red and Orange lines up to the speeds they were designed for and one official said it could ...
MBTA police seeking suspect in indecent assault and battery of teen
Transit police are looking for a suspect who allegedly assaulted a teenage victim Jan. 3 in Davis Square station.
MBTA wants trains to go up to 50 miles per hour on Red, Orange lines
With massive patches of slow zones now mostly repaired, MBTA officials have set their sights on pushing some subway speeds to ...
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Wasting time sitting at red lights on the bus? New traffic system to change that in Boston
Buses traveling through the corridor spent 21% less time waiting at red lights on average and arrived at a green light 5% ...
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MBTA completes commuter rail Automatic Train Control installation
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority has completed implementation of Automatic Train Control on its commuter rail ...
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MBTA implements ATC/PTC on all northside commuter rail lines
PTC automatically controls train speeds when needed, reducing the risk of train collisions and preventing human error, while ...
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MBTA works to improve bus reliability in the city of Boston
The MBTA’s Better Bus Project is working to integrate MBTA bus locations into real-time traffic signal adjustments through a ...
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MBTA to increase speed on Red Line from 40 to 50 mph
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) announced there will be a 10 mile-per-hour (MPH) increase from 40 to 50 ...
Volunteers fan out across Boston for annual homeless count
On a night with single-digit wind chills, this is what it takes in Boston to count the people who sleep on the streets and don’t have a place to call home. On Thursday, an army of more than 250 ...