- Contractors need to repair two-thirds of the rails on Boston’s newly opened, $2.3 billion Green Line Extension, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s general manager said last week, because the rails were placed too narrowly. The joint venture leading the project — GLX Constructors, composed of Fluor, The Middlesex Corp., Herzog and Balfour Beatty — will regauge the faulty tracks.
- Half of the 0.7-mile Union Square branch and 80% of the 3.7-mile Medford branch need repairs, though MBTA General Manager Phil Eng told the Boston Globe, “it’s the whole length of the project that I believe needs to be regauged to be back within the contract requirement.” He said that did not mean the trains are running unsafely, but it did force them to slow down.
- The 4.4-mile extension from Cambridge into Somerville and Medford is the newest part of the light rail system known as the T. Construction started in 2018 and wrapped in December 202
Boston’s year-old $2.3B Green Line Extension needs repairs
