CHELMSFORD, Mass. — Things just don’t seem to go right for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s new Orange Line railcars — even when they’re not on rails.
One of the cars is stranded along the side of Interstate 495 this morning (Wednesday, Feb. 22) in Chelmsford, some 24 miles northwest of Boston, WCVB-TV reports. The trailer carrying it separated from its truck tractor during a delivery move Tuesday night from the CRRC MA factory in Springfield, Mass.
The incident occurred about 9 p.m. Tuesday. The Massachusetts State Police said on Twitter that the car will remain in place, blocking the right line and the breakdown lane, until after the morning commute.
An MBTA spokesman said the car was not damaged. Another new car was successfully delivered.
Delivery of the problem-plagued new equipment for the Orange and Red lines is running well behind schedule. As recently as late January, the MBTA said no cars had been delivered for seven months [see “CRRC won’t be able to meet schedule …,” Trains News Wire, Jan. 26, 2023].
Still there 24 hours later. They are bringing in two large cranes and another tractor trailer rig to transfer the car
Oh, I don’t know. Always something happening in the Old Sod. Like the roof of the Ted Williams tunnel falling onto a car, the rapid deterioration of the parking garages at the Quincy Adams and Braintree subway stations. Bay State is almost as bad as everywhere else in America.
Chinese are not paying overdue supplier bills and non-delivering defective cars. Now they are using junk tractor trailers to deliver the junk. The Commonwealth per usual continues bad decisions and acts surprised, The corruption built Mass Pike failure, the Big Dig Fiasco, the MBTA run by political hacks ad infinitum……