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BLUE LINE
CAPACITY KEEPS GROWING
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(Boston - February 11, 2009) MBTA General
Manager Daniel A. Grabauskas today announced that more than half of
the Blue Line trains that operate during peak commuting periods are
now longer, six-car trains. The number of shorter, four-car trains
continues to shrink. Today, eight of the regularly scheduled
thirteen 'rush hour' period trains are six cars in length.
General Manager Grabauskas says seventy (70) new Blue Line cars are
now on MBTA Property, and 56 of them have been accepted for service
following rigorous testing and inspection phases. The Blue Line
fleet will be comprised of 94 new cars once the procurement process
is finished.
The general manager says yet another six-car train will be deployed
on the Blue Line within a month.
"The additional capacity could not come at a better time," said
Grabauskas, who also announced that average weekday Blue Line
ridership in 2008 was nearly 3% above 2007 levels. On a typical
weekday in 2008,
an average of 58,226 riders used the Blue Line.
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