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The image of a driverless runaway train provides the perfect visual metaphor for the endless travails of the MBTA, especially following the snowbound debacle of last winter. But the runaway train is not just a metaphor or a figure of speech. It actually happened.
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BOSTON – Officials of Boston's financially beleaguered transit system revealed Monday that the top-paid worker on the T has received over $300,000 so far this year, including about 2,600 hours of overtime, while the system's general manager said fares will begin rising starting July 1.
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BOSTON — Halting a runaway Red Line subway train with 50 passengers aboard with no injuries drew praise for the two Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority workers who performed the feat from the T's control center last Thursday, stopping the driverless train in north Quincy by shutting off the power
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BOSTON – Gov. Charlie Baker and top transit officials blamed "multiple errors" by the operator of a Red Line train which rolled out of the Braintree station early Thursday with some 50 passengers aboard and no driver. Two brakes had been disengaged and a throttle-like device may have been
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The MBTA has notified several firms working on the over-budget Green Line Extension project that it is acting to end their current contracts, and the agency plans to install a new project manager as part of a restructuring of the project management team. The move comes after the MassDOT Board
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BOSTON — Standing in the cold drizzle Wednesday morning, Gov. Charlie Baker got an up-close look at some of the equipment the MBTA will entrust to keep the tracks clear and the trains running this winter, and said he expects to be involved in decision making at the T during major
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BOSTON – The Massachusetts State House was abuzz Monday with reports and comments concerning a financial crisis gripping Boston's public transit service and how to pay for a planned Green Line expansion into Somerville and Medford that may cost as much as $3 billion. The projected costs of extending
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Pressed to say whether the MBTA will pursue near-term fare hikes, the authority's chief administrator said Sunday that "everything here is on the table" while also calling for better collection of existing fares. During an interview on WCVB's "On the Record," Brian
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