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STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, JUNE 12, 2019. Trains are back on the red line, but MBTA officials warn that travel times will continue to be longer than usual in the near future due to major damage to infrastructure caused by Tuesday's derailment. .
Chief Executive Steve Poftak said Tuesday that signal bungalows located near the JFK / UMass stop had been damaged by the derailed train. In a series of tweets on Wednesday, the official MBTA account indicated that crews posted along the tracks were to direct traffic manually until the system was repaired.
As a result, trains serving passengers on a line from Braintree to Quincy and Dorchester via Boston, Cambridge and Somerville will advance more slowly than usual and electronic countdowns will remain inactive along the red line. .
"For the future, the bungalows will have to be rebuilt, new signals and cables installed, tracks repaired … For now, we can not say how long it will take," wrote the MBTA. "For now, trains will continue to travel at slower speeds and we ask customers to schedule extra time and use all available services."
A spokesman for the MBTA said on Wednesday that there was still no estimate of the cost of complete repairs.
Shuttles have replaced the Red Line service between North Quincy and JFK / UMass during a Wednesday game to allow for maintenance work, but trains began to run back and forth at 13:45.
Tuesday's derailment was the second on the MBTA's passenger lines in less than a week and the fourth this calendar year. In response, officials hired LTK's engineering department to conduct an external review of all derailments in the past two years.
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