Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Buses will replace trains five nights a week for a month from mid-May through mid-June.
As work continues on the Orange Line's station at Assembly Square in Somerville, service will be impacted five nights a week for a month starting May 19. According to the MBTA website, buses will replace trains between Oak Grove and Sullivan Square stations starting at 9 p.m. each Sunday through Thursday from May 19 to June 21. The diversions will last until the end of service, according to the MBTA. All stops will be serviced by buses between Oak Grove and Sullivan Square, including Medford's Wellington Station. There will be no diversion on Sunday, May 26, due to the Memorial Day holiday.
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Monday, February 11, 2013
Buses once again replace trains between Sullivan Square and Oak Grove on Saturday and Sunday.
According to the MBTA's website, there will once again be an Orange Line diversion this coming weekend. Buses will replace Orange Line trains between Sullivan Square and Oak Grove Stations on Saturday, Feb. 16 and Sunday, Feb. 17. The bus service will make all station stops between Sullivan Square and Oak Grove, with normal service set to resume Monday, Feb. 18. All of the shuttle bus stops will be accessible for persons with disabilities, according to the MBTA. This diversion is taking place as crews "perform track, power, and signal work as part of the Assembly Square Station Project," according to the MBTA.
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Friday, January 25, 2013
Buses will run between Sullivan Square and Oak Grove stations Saturday and Sunday.
A reminder about an upcoming diversion for all of those Orange Line riders out there: Buses will replace Orange Line trains between Sullivan Square and Oak Grove stations on Saturday and Sunday. All shuttle bus stops are accessible for persons with disabilities. Normal service for the Orange Line will resume on Monday.
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Wednesday, December 19, 2012
The MBTA’s new general manager greeted T riders Monday morning and announced new countdown clocks at stations around the area.
Several T stations got new countdown clocks on the same day the MBTA announced its new general manager. MBTA General Manager and Rail & Transit Administrator for MassDOT Beverly Scott greeted riders on the Blue Line platform at State Station and on the Orange Line to Chinatown Station Monday morning, while the T put online countdown clocks at 24 stations, according to an MBTA press statement. There are now 190 clocks at 30 MBTA stations, with a majority of them servicing the Red, Orange and Blue lines, according to the statement. The clocks inform customers how long it will be before the next train arrives at a given stop. Clocks are currently on the at the Community College and Sullivan Square stations. They're tentatively scheduled to be…
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Busing between Sullivan Square and Oak Grove this weekend starting Friday night at 9 p.m.
Buses will replace Orange Line trains between Sullivan Square and Oak Grove MBTA stations beginning 9 p.m. Friday, Dec. 14 through Sunday, Dec. 16. All shuttle bus stops are accessible for persons with disabilities. Normal Orange Line train service will resume on Monday, Dec. 17.
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Wednesday, June 27, 2012
The bus replacement service between Sullivan Square and Oak Grove allows the MBTA to build the new Orange Line station at Assembly Square.
Beginning July 8, and going until Dec. 28, buses will replace evening Orange Line trains between Sullivan Square and Oak Grove every Sunday through Thursday, according to the MBTA. On the effected nights, bus replacement service will begin at 9 p.m. and run until the T closes. The bus replacements will allow the MBTA to shut down Orange Line tracks in order to build the new Orange Line station in Assembly Square. This change in service is part of a series of bus diversions that will take place until 2014.
Friday, June 8, 2012
Track work all weekend, Saturday and Sunday, June 9-10, means it'll be a bus trip between Oak Grove and Sullivan Square for the next two days.
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Friday, June 8, 2012
Buses will replace Orange Line service from Oak Grove Station to Sullivan Square Station all weekend, Saturday and Sunday, June 9-10, according to an advisory on the MBTA website. The buses will make stops at all stations between Oak Grove and Sullivan Square, including Wellington Station in Medford. All shuttle bus stops are accessible for persons with disabilities. This service change, according to the MBTA, is in place in order for necessary Orange Line track work. Melrose Patch reported last month that construction on the new Assembly Square Orange Line stop in Somerville, which has already begun, will lead to periodic bus diversions on the subway line beginning in June and lasting until the station is complete in fall of 2014. For …
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Construction on the new Assembly Square Orange Line station will lead to replacement bus service, off and on, through 2014.
Construction on the new Assembly Square Orange Line stop in Somerville will lead to periodic bus diversions at Wellington Station and other stops along the line beginning in June and until the station is complete in fall of 2014. Most bus diversions will take place on weekends or at night, according to a presentation given by MBTA officials at a community meeting in Somerville Wednesday night. Terry McCarthy, a project manager with the MBTA, said the first weekend bus diversion is tentatively scheduled for June 9, although that date is not yet set in stone. In the beginning, diversions will be "sporadic," McCarthy said, but by late summer and early fall they'll be more regular. Community College, Sullivan Square, Wellington, Malden Center …
Julie the Jarhead
11:30 am on Tuesday, May 7, 2013
I've lived in Malden over 18 years, and I can't remember a time when they were NOT working on the Orange Line! more ›