Transportation
As of Wednesday evening, Red Line services were running as low as an estimated 17.5 percent of scheduled trains.
Even with Winter Storm Fern in the rearview mirror, this week has not been a good one for the Red Line.
Late Monday night, the MBTA reported half-hour delays due to the snowy conditions. The delays continued through Tuesday, this time due to “multiple disabled trains” being removed from service.
By Wednesday, the winter weather had taken its toll on the Red Line, and by about 2 p.m. that afternoon, the MBTA announced that it would be running with reduced service, leading to longer wait times.
Data collected by the nonprofit organization TransitMatters showed that only 35.9 percent of scheduled Red Line trains ran Tuesday, a marginal improvement from 32.7 percent on Monday. The daily service fared even worse Wednesday, with only an estimated 17.5 percent of scheduled trains having run as of 10 p.m.
Along with plenty of local commuters, Cambridge City Councilor Burhan Azeem took note of the Red Line’s poor performance.
“There’s so much demand for a T that’s so fundamentally disappointing,” he said alongside a video on X of passengers waiting on the Central Station platform.
In light of the delays, the MBTA announced that it would cancel upcoming weekend work that was originally scheduled to take place along the line.
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