For the first time in over 15 years, the MBTA Red Line is operating at full speed from end to end. MBTA General Manager Phillip Eng said at a meeting of the MBTA Board of Directors on Thursday ...

As of Monday, there were just two speed restrictions in place — impacting .3 miles of the Green Line. The MBTA said it expects to lift those final slow zones in December.

Since the beginning of this year, the MBTA has averaged 169 round-trip rides on the Red Line daily. On average, it completed 86% of the daily trips it planned over the first two months of the year.

The Red Line now joins the Orange and Blue lines in running slow zone-free. “I’m proud of the tremendous amount of work we’re accomplishing,” MBTA General Manager Phil Eng said in a statement.

Only two slow zones remain throughout the system. The Red Line is running at full speed, without any slow zones, for the first time in 20 years, according to the MBTA. (Matt Stone/Boston Herald, File) ...

An MBTA Red Line train heads down the tracks on its way to Braintree station in 2015. (Jesse Costa/WBUR) Commuters on the Red Line's Braintree branch got a speedy surprise Friday morning.

The MBTA will close a sizable portion of the Red Line and offer shuttle service instead both this weekend and the next in order to tackle planned maintenance, according to the transit agency.

The MBTA dispatched shuttle buses to replace Red Line service between Alewife and Harvard for nearly four hours Monday after a train became disabled near Davis. At 11:22 a.m., the MBTA announced ...

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Since the beginning of this year, the MBTA has averaged 169 round-trip rides on the Red Line daily. On average, it completed 86% of the daily trips it planned over the first two months of the year.