With temperatures nosediving in Greater Boston, the MBTA has been working to take steps meant to ensure trains and buses stay both warm and operational.
The agency has a cold weather plan to help keep things on track. It said it will run trains and buses at or near regular schedules. The key to that is trying to keep all of the trains moving so they are warmed up.“Obviously the extreme weather conditions do have an impact on our system," MBTA Interim General Manager Jeff Gonneville said."We prepare for that, months in advance.”Sign up for NECN newsletters.
The transit agency said it will run trains and buses at or near regular schedules. The key to that is trying to keep all of the trains moving so they are warmed up. "We have crews, our maintenance teams that are actually working on all our vehicles to make sure that their air systems, which control the doors, the brakes in the system are all going to be prepared and ready for this," Gonneville said."
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