Transit Police Superintendent Richard Sullivan said officials believe the person was “suffering from a mental health issue.” ...

MBTA Red Line slow zone-free for first time in over 15 years. Updated: Nov. 25, 2024, 9:58 a.m. | Published: Nov. 25, 2024, 9:52 a.m. Riders board the MBTA Red Line at South Station in Boston.

Since the beginning of this year, the MBTA has averaged 169 round-trip rides on the Red Line daily. On average, it completed 86% of the daily trips it planned over the first two months of the year.

The Red Line now joins the Orange and Blue lines in running slow zone-free. “I’m proud of the tremendous amount of work we’re accomplishing,” MBTA General Manager Phil Eng said in a statement.

An MBTA Red Line train heads down the tracks on its way to Braintree station in 2015. (Jesse Costa/WBUR) Commuters on the Red Line's Braintree branch got a speedy surprise Friday morning.

The MBTA dispatched shuttle buses to replace Red Line service between Alewife and Harvard for nearly four hours Monday after a train became disabled near Davis. At 11:22 a.m., the MBTA announced ...

For the first time in decades, the Red Line is entirely free of slow zones.. According to the MBTA, it’s been at least 20 years since the busy subway line, running south from Alewife toward ...

The MBTA will close a sizable portion of the Red Line and offer shuttle service instead both this weekend and the next in order to tackle planned maintenance, according to the transit agency ...

Just after 10:30 a.m. Monday, the MBTA announced a 15-minute delay on the Red Line due to a “signal problem near Harvard,” the MBTA said on social media. Shortly after 11:00 a.m., the MBTA ...

On the MBTA, the typical Red Line train stretches six cars. But in select circumstances, riders could now see just four cars when their train arrives at the platform. Skip to Article.