A Documentary of North America's First Underground Subway. The MBTA Green Line

Great video on the green line

Well done!

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I used to ride the Green line from Newton Highlands to Park St. for work. Now I'm retired and live in Dorchester. Now I take the Red line whenever I want or need to go downtown.

Type 7s are my absolute favorites and they make the Type 8s look absolutely hideous in my opinion, ohh and let’s not forget all the problems the T had with the Type 8 cars and they provided a “maintenance challenge”. It took a full decade to get all the bugs out and make the cars reliable as well as get them all in service. The problems with the Boeings were similar as those with the Type 8s’ poor braking performance and reliability. This delayed the retirement of the Boeings by another six years until 2007 and the T had to maintain an already aging fleet for much longer than they originally should have had because of these problems. Costs to repair the cars was increasing and the Boeings reliability was decreasing and the T was very unhappy because their old fleet was slowly killing itself. The Type 7s are handsome and it’s really a pity that one of these handsome-looking trolleys are coupled to an extremely ugly Type 8 LRV that’s because the 7s are high-floor and the 8s are low-floor, so there has to be one low-floor streetcar coupled to one high-floor streetcar for ADA accessibility.

The Type 9s have a little bit of the Type 8s design but CAF upgraded it slightly to make it a revamped design and have a better appearance to make the service rider-friendly. The white interior with green cushions on the seats are also great features. I also like the stainless steel exterior and the yellow poles inside as well as the new Siri-type voice to understand announcements a little better because they’re clearer. The MBTA looked at the Type 8s design and thought to themselves “how can we modernize this” and they did just that, they gave it a revamped interior and a brand-new exterior paint scheme. The Type 9s are a perfect example of a modern and beautiful look for a streetcar. They are not hideous looking like the Type 8s and they don’t derail and injure people, the 7s and 9s are WAY better than the Type 8s. The 7s are my childhood and it’ll be sad to see them being retired and scrapped for the Type 10s. I hope a Type 7 can be donated to a museum because they saved American light rail systems from a big disaster and they have a great design.