BOSTON — After more than a week, service on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s Red Line subway is approaching normalcy.
As of Tuesday, the MBTA was running 10 trains an hour on the Red Line, the Boston Globe reports — still fewer than normal, but up from the six per hour it had been running while repairing track and signal infrastructure at the site of a June 11 derailment at the JFK/UMass station. [See “MBTA Red Line subway derailment injures one, disrupts morning commute,” Trains News Wire, June 11, 2019.] That increase in service meant the agency has discontinued the extra commuter trains it had been running to offset the Red Line issues. The last of those extra trains ran during Tuesday’s evening commute.
Trains are now operating on both tracks through the JFK/UMass station, while some repairs continue. The MBTA is awaiting the arrival of some parts needed to complete the signal repairs the Globe reported.
