Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Passengers will be bussed between North Station and Anderson/Woburn on the Lowell line.
Commuter rail passengers on the Lowell line will see service adjustments this weekend as rehabilitation work takes place on the Cross Street Bridge in Somerville. According to the Massachusetts Bay Commuter Railroad Company, bussing will be required for inbound and outbound passengers between Anderson/Woburn and North Station on Saturday and Sunday. MBCR said inbound passengers from Lowell, North Billerica, Wilmington and Anderson/Woburn will be bussed to North Station from Anderson/Woburn. Passengers headed inbound to Winchester Center, Wedgemere and West Medford will be transported by train while MBCR said inbound passengers from those stations will be bussed from West Medford to North Station. The busses will leave from West Medford at …
Monday, January 21, 2013
A new device will be distributed to conductors on MBTA conductors that will give them real-time information about trains all across the rail system.
A new pilot program being dubbed “Conductor Companion” is being unveiled on the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority’s commuter rail system, putting complete details about train services across the system in the hands of conductors. The Massachusetts Bay Commuter Railroad Company (MBCR), the contractor that runs the commuter railroad for the MBTA, made the announcement on Monday. Essentially it is a unique mobile application that will allow conductors on the MBTA commuter rail system to receive real-time information about service for the first time. “The speed of technology today demands an application that gives conductors the information they need and that customers want,” said Gillian Wood, MBCR’s chief customer service officer in Monday…
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
The MBTA is looking far and wide for a company to run its commuter rail service.
Before the T shells out billions on a new long-term, commuter-rail-service contract, it’s first spending nearly $3 million on an international search to attract the best applicants, according to the Boston Herald. The T is looking for a company to run its commuter-rail-service operations over the next five to possibly 30 years, as its current, roughly $250 million-per-year contract with the Massachusetts Bay Commuter Railroad Co. (MBCR) expires June 2013. MBCR plans to bid aggressively for the new deal, according to the Huffington Post. The company, which has been in place since 2003, has received some criticism during its tenure, primarily for weather-related delays. However, MBCR officials defended their record in January. Half of the …
quasimodo
9:04 pm on Monday, January 21, 2013
I am surprised to read that the MBCR has finally reached the 20th Century, if not the 21th. The MBCR is run by the French Company called " Veolia Environment," not an American company, and this type of "Conductor Companion," or similar, has been in service in all of the buses in every large cities in France, including Paris, and of course in its train system other than the TGVs, where it had been… more ›