KevinKorell
Jul 10 2012, 12:47 PM
Boston, MA
Globe, 7/8/12:
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Standing in a pit below an Orange Line car, MBTA repairer Dave Campbell manipulated knobs and buttons to activate the Stanray Wheel Truing Machine, a hulking device in dinged-up avocado green that looks like the offspring of Cold War weaponry and a KitchenAid mixer.
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EdFindlay
Jul 15 2012, 08:33 PM
Closure of the Washington Street El and the use of new technology makes that 25 year lifespan estimate from the late 70s woefully inacurate.
The estimated replacement date of 5-10 years is not out of the blue, in fact it has been planned to coincide with a major bus order that has to occur. They did it previously with the replacement of their 1960s and 1970s buses in the early 90s when they bought new Red Line 1800 series cars and again in the early 2000s when they replace their 1980s buses and bought the new BLue Line cars.