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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 even higher levels as one of the next major goals.

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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 happen "within days."

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With slow zones conquered, MBTA is eyeing much faster speeds on the Red and Orange lines

Transit officials say the Red Line will be raised to 50 mph, as the Orange Line will move at 55. The post With slow zones conquered, MBTA is eyeing much faster speeds on the Red and Orange lines appeared first on Boston.

MBTA official says Red Line speed could soon increase to 50 mph, citing quality of track repair work

The head of the T's Maintenance of Way department told the agency’s board of directors that the track replacement work between the JFK and Braintree stations is of a high enough quality increase the ...

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Here are the MBTA service outages planned for the first half of 2025

More shutdowns are coming to the MBTA in the first half of 2025 as the ... the commuter rail and shutdowns longer than a week on the Red, Orange, and Blue lines. In an accompanying news release ...

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Service resumes on MBTA's Red Line after maintenance vehicle derails

Service resumed on a section of the MBTA's Red Line after a maintenance vehicle derailed early Friday.The MBTA said the "light duty maintenance vehicle," which supports workers doing system ...

MBTA Red Line dispatches shuttle buses, frustrating riders

Shuttle buses were dispatched to replace Red Line service between Alewife and Harvard on Monday after a train became disabled near Davis. The MBTA has not explained how the train became disabled. The ...

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The MBTA is slow zone free. How much faster are trains running?

To see the MBTA ... to Boston’s South Station is saving about 24 minutes a day. For a daily commuter, that’s two extra hours each week spent at home, rather than on the Red Line.

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