BOSTON — Work on rapid-transit Orange Line was 37% complete nine days into its planned month-long shutdown, Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority General Manager Steve Poftak said Sunday as Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker visited the site of one project.
WBZ-TV reports Baker, Poftak, and other officials visited the State Street station on the Orange Line, the second-busiest in the MBTA transit network.
Baker noted the ability to work 24 hours a day is allowing projects to advance steadily: “You don’t have to spend hours getting onto the tracks and off of the tracks and having really limited time to actually do work… They can work on them on two shifts and dramatically speed up how long this work is going to take, which was the point of this in the first place.”
While Baker saying he is confident the work will be complete by Sept. 18, Poftak would not say repairs are ahead of schedule.
“I don’t want to count these chickens before they hatch,” he said. “We are on schedule. I think we are cautiously confident in our ability to do this.”
The line is slated to reopen Sept. 19.
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