MBTA touts on-time commuter rail performance
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A new study says the area around Union Station can support 1,514 new housing units.
The commuter rail system recently enjoyed its best stretch of on-time performance in at least five years, but the numbers do not capture recent delays caused by a Red Line derailment that has affected the entire transit network, officials said.
Between December 2018 and May 2019, commuter rail trains arrived within five minutes of scheduled times at an average monthly rate of 90 percent or higher, according to MBTA executive director of commuter rail Robert DiAdamo.
Those rates mark what DiAdamo described as "the best six-month stretch" of commuter rail performance since July 2014, when the MBTA began its eight-year contract with Keolis to operate the system.
However, DiAdamo cautioned in his presentation before the T and Department of Transportation boards that the next six-month performance measurements would likely decline in the wake of the Red Line derailment last week.
Commuter rail lines have run extra trains to make up for affected Red Line service, but with larger crowds and slower travel times in the area thanks to damaged signal infrastructure, timeliness has been affected, DiAdamo said.
"We know that the extra service that will be provided to support the Red Line, which is obviously the right thing to do, that extra service is going to have an impact on (on-time performance) next month," he said.
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