The MBTA is walking back a suggestion that it would soon get rid of some speed restrictions on the Green Line. This morning the agency said that tests revealed the need to keep the restrictions in place.
The MBTA is walking back a suggestion that it would soon get rid of some speed restrictions on the Green Line. More than a week after the T ordered trains to move slower because of failures to confirm past inspections and repairs, MBTA Interim General Manager Jeff Gonneville said Friday afternoon he is"optimistic" the T will be able to replace the end-to-end slow zone across the Green Line with a series of smaller, localized limitations starting Saturday morning.
"We are making progress with our validations. So over the next coming days as well, we're going to start making some incremental improvements and really start lifting some of these speed restrictions," Gonneville said."But some of these speed restrictions are going to require corrective actions and will take longer than others to resolve and lift. We're actively working on that now and working through those plans.
Once the end-to-end speed restriction lifts on the Green Line, about 16 percent of that line will be subject to slow zones, according to MBTA data. Slow zones cover 22 percent of the Mattapan Line. "So I am satisfied with the amount of progress that we have made as it relates to using engineers and having engineers take those very detailed precise measurements over the past week," he added.
While Gov. Maura Healey continues to tout her administration as committed to transparency at the MBTA, a T spokesperson did not shed much additional light.
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