If it's at Waban the day Green Line service resumes, at least three, Lorianne DiSabato reports : ... I appreciate news crews' apparent solicitude in following up on this important story ... but why exactly is it necessary to have three different networks shooting live footage of an otherwise empty MTBA stop? ... NECN: MBTA resumes service along ...
Federal safety officials denounced the MBTA's "lack of a safety culture'' yesterday, concluding that a fatal Green Line crash in Newton last year could have been avoided if the agency had invested in safety technology routinely used by other transit systems, and the T's three other subway lines.
Linda Jenness was working in the rear of a Green Line trolley last year, slowly emerging from a red light in Newton, when she "heard a horrific crash and felt my train being thrown." "I just felt like an airplane hit me," Jenness told federal investigators.
On May 28, 2008, about 5:51 p.m., eastern daylight time, westbound Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Green Line train 3667, traveling about 38 mph, struck the rear of westbound Green Line train 3681, which had stopped for a red signal.
Share + Jul 13, 2009 7:24 pm US/Eastern Federal investigators say a trolley operator who was killed last year when her train rammed into another didn't heed a red warning signal and was going too fast.
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The MBTA, long under pressure to install anticrash technology on its Green Line, is already six months behind schedule in planning the bare outlines of a modern system.