Sunday, May 12, 2013
Buses will replace trains five nights a week for a month from mid-May through mid-June.
As work continues on the Orange Line's station at Assembly Square in Somerville, service will be impacted five nights a week for a month starting May 19. According to the MBTA website, buses will replace trains between Oak Grove and Sullivan Square stations starting at 9 p.m. each Sunday through Thursday from May 19 to June 21. The diversions will last until the end of service, according to the MBTA. All stops will be serviced by buses between Oak Grove and Sullivan Square, including Medford's Wellington Station. There will be no diversion on Sunday, May 26, due to the Memorial Day holiday.
Thursday, April 11, 2013
The report reveals that 42 percent of residents in the Orange Line corridor are people of color, that 20 percent of households live in poverty, and that the corridor is ripe for development.
The Metropolitan Area Planning Council Tuesday released a study called the "Orange Line Opportunity Corridor Report." The report looks at the demographics, economy and infrastructure of the MBTA line, which stretches from Malden, through Somerville, into downtown Boston, Roxbury and Jamaica Plain. The MBTA is currently building a new Orange Line Station in Somerville's Assembly Square that is expected to open in 2014. It's the fist new MBTA station built since 1987. The report makes a number of observations and recommendations about the Orange Line. For instance: The report calls for investing in the Orange Line's infrastructure, encouraging large-scale land acquisition for development, and mitigating displacement of at-risk residents …
Friday, March 1, 2013
The Red Line has some major service interruptions on the horizon, and there are bus diversions on the Orange Line this weekend and during evening service Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
Buses will replace Orange Line train service between Sullivan Square and Oak Grove on Saturday and Sunday, according to the MBTA website. A similar bus diversion is also scheduled for the weekend of March 9 and 10. What's more, the bus diversion will also be in effect Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday beginning at 9 p.m. the MBTA says. The MBTA is shutting down train service in order to conduct construction work on the new Assembly Square Station. The MBTA Board of Directors voted Wednesday to renovate the Longfellow Bridge, and that means the Red Line is expecting 25 weekends worth of bus diversions over the course of three years, according to the Boston Globe. Construction work on the $255 million project begins this summer, the Globe …
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Buses once again replace trains between Sullivan Square and Oak Grove on Saturday and Sunday.
According to the MBTA's website, there will once again be an Orange Line diversion this coming weekend. Buses will replace Orange Line trains between Sullivan Square and Oak Grove Stations on Saturday, Feb. 16 and Sunday, Feb. 17. The bus service will make all station stops between Sullivan Square and Oak Grove, with normal service set to resume Monday, Feb. 18. All of the shuttle bus stops will be accessible for persons with disabilities, according to the MBTA. This diversion is taking place as crews "perform track, power, and signal work as part of the Assembly Square Station Project," according to the MBTA. This section of the Orange Line is expected to experience regular weekend bus diversions until the Assembly Square station is …
Friday, January 25, 2013
Buses replace trains between Sullivan Square and Oak Grove on Jan. 26 and Jan. 27.
Buses will replace Orange Line trains between Sullivan Square and Oak Grove Stations on Saturday, Jan. 26 through Sunday, Jan. 27, according to the MBTA. All shuttle bus stops are accessible for persons with disabilities. Normal Orange Line train service will resume on Monday. Bus diversions will also take place over the weekends of Feb. 2-3, Feb. 9-10 and Feb. 16-17, the MBTA says.
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Buses will replace trains beginning Friday night.
Buses will replace Orange Line trains between Sullivan Square and Oak Grove MBTA stations beginning 9 p.m. Friday, Dec. 14 through Sunday, Dec. 16. All shuttle bus stops are accessible for persons with disabilities. Normal Orange Line train service will resume on Monday, Dec. 17.
Friday, September 21, 2012
Buses will replace trains between Oak Grove and Sullivan Square on Saturday and Sunday.
Orange Line riders take note: There are bus diversions between Oak Grove and Sullivan Square on Saturday and Sunday. During the diversion, buses will make stops at all stations between Oak Grove and Sullivan Station. The diversion will allow workers to perform track, power and signal work for the new Assembly Square Orange Line station that is under construction, according to the MBTA. Construction on the new Assembly Square station will lead to periodic Orange Line diversions until the station is complete in fall of 2014.
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
The bus replacement service between Sullivan Square and Oak Grove allows the MBTA to build the new Orange Line station at Assembly Square.
Beginning July 8, and going until Dec. 28, buses will replace evening Orange Line trains between Sullivan Square and Oak Grove every Sunday through Thursday, according to the MBTA. On the effected nights, bus replacement service will begin at 9 p.m. and run until the T closes. The bus replacements will allow the MBTA to shut down Orange Line tracks in order to build the new Orange Line station in Assembly Square. This change in service is part of a wider series of bus diversions that will take place until 2014.
Friday, June 8, 2012
Track work all weekend, Saturday and Sunday, June 9-10, means it'll be a bus trip between Oak Grove and Sullivan Square for the next two days.
Buses will replace Orange Line service from Oak Grove Station to Sullivan Square Station all weekend, Saturday and Sunday, June 9-10, according to an advisory on the MBTA website. The buses will make stops at all stations between Oak Grove and Sullivan Square. All shuttle bus stops are accessible for persons with disabilities. This service change, according to the MBTA, is in place in order for necessary Orange Line track work. Somerville Patch reported last month that construction on the new Assembly Square Orange Line stop, which has already begun, will lead to periodic bus diversions on the subway line beginning in June and lasting until the station is complete in fall of 2014. For more information, contact the MBTA Customer …
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Construction on the new Assembly Square Orange Line station will lead to replacement bus service, off and on, through 2014.
Construction on the new Assembly Square Orange Line stop, which has already begun, will lead to periodic bus diversions on the subway line beginning in June and lasting until the station is complete in fall of 2014. Most bus diversions will take place on weekends or at night, according to a presentation given by MBTA officials at a community meeting in Somerville Wednesday night. Community College, Sullivan Square, Wellington, Malden Center and Oak Grove stations will all see bus diversions at some point during construction. Terry McCarthy, a project manager with the MBTA, said the first weekend bus diversion is tentatively scheduled for June 9, although that date is not yet set in stone. In the beginning, diversions will be "sporadic," …
Sand Man
6:56 pm on Sunday, March 24, 2013
"Weekday Red Line train service will remain intact duding the three-year construction period..." OK, but what about those of us who aren't DUDES, e.g. Boomers? more ›