I-Team: MBTA considers shutting down Orange Line for up to a month

BOSTON – The MBTA is contemplating to close down the Orange Line for as much as a month for important upkeep, sources inform the WBZ I-Crew.

The potential shutdown comes after a number of questions of safety on the Orange Line and throughout the T system. It might velocity up repairs to the road that runs from Oak Grove in Malden to Forest Hills in Boston’s Jamaica Plain.

The MBTA Board of Administrators have a gathering scheduled Wednesday morning at 10:30 to debate this plan.

Authorities inspectors say there are miles of tracks with security defects and consequently, trains must decelerate in these areas.

The information in regards to the potential shutdown comes after quite a few incidents together with a prepare fireplace on the Orange Line two weeks in the past. Riders have been climbing over seats and out home windows to get to security when the prepare caught on fireplace over the Mystic River.

The MBTA mentioned a unfastened piece of steel on the prepare hit the third rail and sparked the hearth.

A number of the passengers on that prepare are contemplating suing the MBTA.

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu instructed WBZ she is conscious of the stories the Orange Line is shutting down. She says the town will work with the T to seek out alternate transportation for passengers on that line.

Governor Charlie Baker has a information convention scheduled Wednesday at 12:30 p.m. on the Orange Line railyard to debate “accelerated infrastructure upgrades to the MBTA to enhance service, security and reliability for riders.”