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UPDATE: No MBTA Service Tuesday

There will be no Commuter Rail, subway or trolley service.

UPDATED on Monday, Feb. 9 at 5:50 p.m.:

On Tuesday, all MBTA rail services (Subway, Trolley, and Commuter Rail) will be suspended all day while maintenance crews continue to clear snow and ice from tracks, the third rail and switches. Mechanical forces will continue to assess the damage done to subway cars, trolleys, locomotives and passenger coaches.

Bus service will be available on an extremely limited basis with various buses on snow routes Buses will run with delays due to traffic congestion and local street conditions.


By Daniel Libon (Patch Staff)

Those planning on using the Commuter Rail to get home will have until 7 p.m. to catch a train outbound from Boston.

The MBTA announced that they will suspend all subway, trolley, and Commuter Rail services effective at 7 p.m. tonight. Limited bus service will remain.

The announcement comes on the heels of an earlier decision to suspend all Commuter Rail service inbound to Boston.

All day, the Commuter Rail and subway have been plagued with delays and cancellation. The most notable incident came in Quincy where nearly 50 people were stuck in a Red Line train for two hours after snow caused the third rail to lose power.

During a press conference on Monday, Governor Charlie Baker called the performance by the MBTA, “unacceptable.”

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