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MBTA

Taking taxpayers on a runaway ride

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.

Massachusetts

Runaway Red Line train’s safe stop brings Baker’s praise

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

Massachusetts

Runaway train stemmed from ‘multiple errors,’ Baker says

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