Everything ran “pretty smoothly” on the first day of the Orange Line’s reopening, said Boston Mayor Michelle Wu on Monday in a press conference.
“We hope that people will start returning back to the Orange Line. It was pretty smooth today. It was a six-minute wait when we go to the station and then it was 14 minutes until the next train after that,” the mayor said outside City Hall Plaza.
Mayor Wu took the new and improved Orange Line to work this morning from Roslindale. Her ride from Forest Hills to State Street took about 25 minutes.
“As the speeds are coming back, as the reliability is coming back, we are headed in a great direction for the Orange Line and the system overall,” Wu said. “The more people that are getting on our trains and leaving behind cars, the less traffic there is on the road for everyone even a little bit makes a big, big difference.”
Wu did note there were moments where the train she took did “crawl” over the slow zones. However, she did note that the Orange Line’s first few days of reopening is a “testing period.” The mayor believes next week there will be a big difference in the performance of the train.
Jascha Franklin-Hodge, the Boston Chief of Streets, also rode the Orange Line with Mayor Wu.
“Ultimately we’re just happy to have the train back,” Franklin-Hodge said. “The difference that a single-seat ride makes for people if they’re coming from the south or the north not having to make those transfers onto the Green Line it’s just a world of difference in terms of time and convenience and just sense of comfort.”
Franklin-Hodge said that some of the shuttle bus infrastructure — like the terminals in Government Center and Copley — will be taken out. However, other infrastructure will be put in place to provide a benefit to buses that run on the streets or safety benefits for people in intersections, he said.
Later today, Franklin-Hodge said he will be putting out a list of infrastructure that will remain on Boston’s streets. In terms of the challenges that the T still faces, Franklin-Hodge said that he hopes that the T can hire more dispatchers.
“What we saw in the last 30 days is what happens when the city and the transit agency make a necessary, but unfortunate and challenging disruption of work as well as it can,” Franklin-Hodge said. “The relationship between the city and the MBTA is strong and I think that is what allowed for this incredible coordination to happen.”
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