Traffic & Transit
Red Line Train Derailment Has Commuters Searching For Answers
The MBTA said things are getting back on track, four hours after a Red Line train left the rails.
BOSTON, MA — The Red Line is back in service on the Ashmont tracks nearly four hours after a train derailed Tuesday morning. The train derailed in the Ashmont train yard around 5:30 a.m. No reason was given for the derailment, but the MBTA said there were no passengers aboard the train.
The incident was the latest to draw the ire of thousands of riders who rely on the MBTA to get to work and school. Instead of the quick shot through Dorchester, shuttle buses were ferrying exasperated commuters between Savin Hill and JFK/UMass at rush hour.
It took some two hours to get the train back on the rails and another two hours for track and power crews to make repairs.
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The Braintree portion of the Red Line continued as scheduled. The Red Line splits at JFK/UMass into Ashmont and Braintree lines.
If you have an MBTA horror story, send your experience to mike.carraggi@patch.com.
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The complete incompetence and utter disregard for its customers the @MBTA exhibits on a daily basis somehow still has the power to render me flabbergasted. #mbtafail #fixthembta
— Kyle Hemingway (@khemingway) May 21, 2019
@MBTA DO NOT HAVE SHUTTLE BUSES STOP AT RANDOM STOPS ALONG DORCHESTER AVE.
— Mike Phillips (@chewey2102) May 21, 2019
There are no shuttles at Ashmont. Good job
— Scipio (@Scipio888) May 21, 2019
Waited at Savin hill “stop” on dot Ave, 5-6 buses passed... completely full. Not safe. You need to send buses to individual stops.
— Tim Rineck (@TimRineck) May 21, 2019
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