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#1 KevinKorell

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Posted 08 February 2016 - 12:13 PM

Dorchester, MA Reporter, 1/28/16:

T workers keep Mattapans classic cars on the tracks


The MBTAs Presidential Conference Cars the vintage orange and cream-colored trolleys that shuttle passengers between Ashmont and Mattapan Square are usually referred to as a fleet. But there are only ten such cars still among the living here in Boston, and, typically, just six of them are actually on the tracks at any given time.


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Posted 23 February 2016 - 06:09 PM

 

 

Boston shouldn’t derail Mattapan trolley

 

BOSTON ALREADY HAS what many large cities have spent millions of dollars trying to create: a streetcar serving an otherwise transit-starved area. So there’s considerable irony that just as Washington, D.C., prepares its long-awaited streetcar for opening, and as New York City mayor Bill de Blasio proposes a new 16-mile streetcar line in Brooklyn and Queens, MBTA administrators and the T fiscal control board has raised the possibility of eliminating the Mattapan trolley. It’s not a decision that the board should make without a full consideration of the long-term lost opportunities.

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Posted 20 May 2016 - 08:35 AM

 

 

Trolley maintenance in Philly worth a look, MassDOT is told

 

With local officials continuing to push for the preservation of Mattapan’s historic high-speed trolley line as an integral economic and historic part of the communities it runs through, the state’s Department of Transportation could take a cue on trolley maintenance from Philadelphia, state Rep. Dan Cullinane and City Councillor Frank Baker told a gathering of the Lower Mills Civic Association on Tuesday night.

http://www.dotnews.c...ok-massdot-told

 

Psst! When in a pinch, the T can always call on Brookville Equipment Corporation.  [Shameless promotion].   :D  Sloan






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