MBTA: D Line Service Trouble May be Due to Faulty Equipment
With a number of recent breakdowns and service trouble, the MBTA says they have personnel working "around the clock to prevent failures."
Frequent passengers on the MBTA's Green D Line can tell you that lately, service has not been the best. Just last week, shuttle buses had to replace train service after a wire problem at the Waban Station in Newton. Five days earlier, another wire problem shut down all Newton service on the Green Line between Riverside and Reservoir stations. With a number of recent service interruptions, the MBTA says it has been "aggressive" in its inspections of the overhead (catenary) wire systems, according to an email from MBTA spokesman Joe Pesaturo. The problems, Pesaturo says, could be due to new equipment recently installed on the line. "After the most recent disruption, [workers] concluded that the failures have occurred at locations were …
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