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Red Line made it a week before a slow zone popped up again

By adamg on Sun, 12/01/2024 - 9:14pm
MBTA system map showing the return of a slow zone to the Red Line

Red Line trains can only go 10 m.p.h. on part of the Ashmont branch. Map by MBTA.

A new slow zone emerged on the Red Line this weekend, just one week after MBTA officials had declared the line free of speed restrictions for the first time in two decades.

For safety reasons, train drivers are required to go no faster than 10 m.p.h. in a one-tenth mile stretch of the inbound Ashmont branch just north of Savin Hill, according to the T's speed restrictions page - which does not specify the cause of the new restriction.

In announcing the seeming end of Red Line speed restrictions last week, T officials had expressed hope they could clear what at the time seemed like the last of the entire system's slow zones, two of them on the Green Line downtown, in work scheduled for this month.

Percentage of track per line with slow zones over the past month:

MBTA chart showing the percentage of subway tracks with slow zones over the past month

Via Boston Area Public Transit Photos & Discussion.

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Comments

By cybah on Sun, 12/01/2024 - 11:42pm.

Well that didnt last long. sigh

also that graph.. I assume the black line is the orange line? since the other three colors match mbta subway line colors.

By jon_ on Sun, 12/01/2024 - 11:46pm.

...that a new slow zone (or an old one) has reappeared between South Station and Broadway headed outbound. The last few times I've been on that portion of the red line there was a slow down in that area. Here we go again...

(Also, the one sometimes-working escalator at Andrew is broken again...again...)