BOSTON – Green Line commuters are frustrated with another problem on the T after a streetcar derailed at Packard’s Corner in Allston on Monday.
“The city itself needs to do a lot more to like invest in infrastructure and make sure this doesn’t keep happening through the T lines,” said Maggie Onder, a Green Line commuter.
The MBTA says all 30 passengers on the train got off safely, but it took about four hours to get the train back on track.
“We got to Blandford Street and they said, yeah, I’m sorry, the train isn’t running, we’re taking it out of service, like a bit of bad luck,” said Julia Beal, a Green Line rider. “It’s kind of frustrating when you pay $90 a month to take the train and then the train doesn’t run.”
MBTA General Manager Phillip Eng says it appears the train tracks are to blame after the center wheels came off the track.
Crews are now working through the night to fix these tracks at this busy intersection between Commonwealth Ave and Brighton Ave.
“Preliminarily, the distance between the rails was not where it should have been, so we are assessing how this happened,” said Eng.
Meanwhile, shuttle buses will replace the Green Line from Kenmore to Washington Street for the rest of the night. The MBTA is working to resume Green Line service Tuesday morning.
“The shuttle buses are not reliable in the slightest when this happens or something like that happens on the green line, everybody’s delayed, people are late for work, it’s really a problem,” Onder said.
“I take it to work and so I’m going to have to Uber or get on like 3 buses to get where I need to go, it’s not going to be fun,” said Aliya Zwyer.
Eng says he hears those frustrations and will work to fix that stretch of the Green Line as soon as possible.
“The team needs to come together well, we have a lot of priorities in competition in terms of where we need to tackle, this is one of those we will look to accelerate,” said Eng.
Eng says they already had plans to fix that area of the Green Line this summer, but now they can move that work after this derailment.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates as more information becomes available.
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