BOSTON — The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority is planning to begin publishing information on areas on its rapid-transit network with speed restrictions because of track and other issues, the Boston Globe reports — a change from a prior stance of non-disclosure that led to sharp criticism during hearings by U.S. senators last year.
MBTA spokesman Joe Pesaturo said the agency is designing a public report on its slow zones and will post the information this spring “including track lengths, speeds, dates, and reasons for restrictions.”
The agency came under fire last fall when, after completing a month-long maintenance shutdown of its Orange Line, monitoring by the advocacy group TransitMatters found travel times on the line were slower than they had been before the work. The MBTA subsequently admitted that it had imposed more slow zones to address problems it found during the shutdown; failure to communicate that information was criticized by U.S. Sen. Ed Markey at a hearing in October [see “FTA has no plans to take over MBTA …,” Trains News Wire, Oct. 17, 2022].
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