Contractors are requesting even more time to widen rails across the 4.4-mile Green Line Extension, more than two-thirds of which are too close together.
The MBTA announced Friday that it is expanding the evening and overnight closures of the Green Line Extension through Dec. 17. Since Monday, Nov. 27, officials have closed the extension around 8:45 p.m. each night to give crews more time to widen tracks, more than two-thirds of which are too narrow.
The MBTA will shut down service a few hours earlier than usual on the Green Line Extension on more than a dozen nights starting later<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://whdh.com/news/new-glx-tracks-to-be-fixed-during-nighttime-closures/">Read More</a>
Tens of thousands of people in need will get a free meal after volunteers from a Greenville, South Carolina, company spent their morning packing them up.
Miles of tracks that are too narrow across the Green Line Extension could be fixed by mid-November following up to two weeks of evening closures,<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://whdh.com/news/glx-track-fix-may-require-two-weeks-of-overnight-repairs-mbta-general-manager-says/">Read More</a>