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MBTA to give you a chance to test out one of the planned new Green Line mega-trolleys
By adamg on Wed, 10/23/2024 - 4:29pm
Rendering via MBTA.
The MBTA says it will assemble a mock-up of its proposed new Type 10 Green Line trolleys - the ones 40 feet longer than current trolleys - for visits by prospective riders at City Hall Plaza next Tuesday and Wednesday.
People - including people with disabilities - will be able to board the mock-up between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. T designers will be there between 10 a.m. and noon to listen to what you like and don't like.
Among the features of the proposed new trolleys: People can board at all doors on the station side of a train. The trains will have wider doors and they will be 100% "low floor" for easier boarding, especially for people with mobility issues. The trolleys are also supposed to be more reliable and safer than the current, shorter trolleys.
In September, 2022, the MBTA board selected Spanish trainmaker CAF for an $811-million project to build 100 of the Type 10 "supercars," which will have several separate sections linked by revolving bendy pivot points, compared to the two sections in current trolleys. CAF built the Green Line's newest trolleys, the ones that added black paint to the exterior, as the Green Line Extension got closer to opening.
The T hopes to have the first of the new trolleys in use carrying actual passengers in 2027, with the entire new fleet rolled out by 2030, assuming the project does not run into any of the delays that have long been common with new T trains.
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Should make it to Park Street by Thursday.
Barring any slow zones.
D Rail
Do they give you the opportunity to experience how it feels during a derailment? Good name for a MBTA Rapper---D Rail.
Can't see but did they learn
Can't see but did they learn from the Orange Line fails? I grate over the jutting out emergency button that backs, butts, bags, backpacks, press against causing drivers to stop train and ask each car if someone needs assistance?? Is there a way for the driver to know immediately which car the button was pressed in an actual emergency so as not to waste time? That should have been a couple of no brainer changes made a long time ago.
Ridiculous button placement.
Ridiculous button placement. Add a lifting cover over the button. Add an intercom. Add a car number indicator for the driver.
Ridiculous capital purchase.
Why are the new Orange Line cars/trains so jerky at stops and gos?
Why is the ride so bumpy even after months of track work?
Is it true the wheels go out of round?
Why aren’t the cars the same height as the platforms? How is this ADA compliant? What does this portend for compatibility/flexibility when upgrading/adding automated safety features?
Why can’t the computer/ stop announcement let you know which side the doors will open on at the end of the line?
Why do the display monitors by the doors stick out so far that tall people can’t sit there? -And, those are handicapped seats to boot! Answer: 1) Not made for American avg. height 2) MBTA (Patrick?) didn’t care about that trifle. 3) I actually don’t know.
What is the MBTA going to do about the spring-loaded “jump seats” that have elderly people sprawled out on the floor all the time as negotiate pushing the seat down and attempting to sit while the train lurches to a start and are a crush/pinch hazard as well? Answer: 1) fix them in the down position. 2) iadk
Button
No, is the answer. If a stop button is pushed the driver doesn’t even know which car it comes from.
We test drove one, right?
1. Seriously, did we run a test article on our rails before, buying the cow?
2. Workers are responsible for the costs of transporting ourselves to work be it gas, insurance, depreciation, etc., or MBTA fare, but the MBTA infrastructure also is a good in the Massachusetts environment that delivers workers to their employers and regarding this second part are all employers giving back enough in taxes to maintain the means of prosperity?
I like the seats
I don't know who approved the ridiculous "Blue Scoops" for the newest MBTA articulated buses that run on Route 39 but if I did I would ridicule them fiercely after of course making them sit in on for the full route.
At least the seats on this mockup appear to be at a 45 degrees not 55 degrees.