All this is to say that the T is still facing a lot of scrutiny from us in the media, from its riders and from politicians. But a week came and went and passengers said they were still dealing with really slow rides, especially between North Station and Assembly Square.Īnd finally, last week, the T fessed up and they said they're still doing Orange Line work at night when the subway is out of service, and that while that work’s ongoing, the slow zones will stay in place. The T said it would take about a week or so for the tracks to settle in, and at that point the Orange Line would be running at speeds you would expect for a major city subway. The only hiccup was these slow zones, those parts of the Orange Line where trains had to move at dirge-like speeds as new tracks were broken in. museum to return artifacts looted from their relatives’ bodies MBTA admits to ongoing slow zones on Orange Line beyond 7-day ‘settling’ period But the T met its deadline and as we journalists know, meeting your deadline is half the battle.īasic Black: What happens when human lives are used as political pawns I think everyone, including me, including a lot of people in our newsroom, including the vast majority of T riders, had zero faith that the Orange Line would open back up and run as planned when the MBTA said it would on September 19th. The MBTA remains on everybody's mind after the Orange Line shut down.īaskin: Yeah - the T had basically been declaring victory after the shutdown, and at first it seemed like they kind of had a right to because the shutdown ended on time. Orange Line riders are still experiencing slow zones. The flight in question that caught people's attention is apparently just run-of-the-mill business travel. I want to point out there were rumors and rumblings over the long weekend that another politically motivated migrant flight was going to be heading towards not Martha's Vineyard, but Nantucket this time this week. We'll be following up with them as the week plays out. But right now, the nonprofits in question are staying kind of quiet. We're hoping to get an update on how the permanent or semi-permanent housing effort is going. ![]() With that in mind, the Baker administration closed down the temporary shelter late last week. And those remaining 35 have been looking for more permanent housing options with the assistance of some local nonprofits. The others had left all of their own volition. As of last week, about 35 people were still living on the base. As you know, and I think most listeners know by now, they've been moved off of Martha's Vineyard a few weeks back, just days after the DeSantis flight, and they were offered temporary shelter at joint base Cape Cod. Do we have a sense of what is happening with these people now? ![]() That's the flight of about 50 Venezuelan migrants organized by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. The migrants who landed on Martha’s Vineyard are looking for more permanent housing.Īrun Rath: So Matt, let's start with the latest on the people who were flown to Massachusetts from Texas last month. ![]() ![]() The battles take place in icy mines and on the streets of an abandoned underground city.GBH News Assignment Editor Matt Baskin joined GBH All Things Considered Host Arun Rath to talk about what stories our newsroom is following closely this week, from the migrants who landed on Martha’s Vineyard, slow zones on the Orange Line to historic Lakota artifacts that are being returned. Use tactics to exploit your enemies' weaknesses and achieve victory! You receive rewards for victories in the form of cogs, which you can trade in to upgrade your cannons, machine guns, emitters and skills. Your task is to defend your machine from various enemies – some are protected by armor, some fly, and others are vulnerable to electricity. The plot follows the resistance of the planet's defenders against an army of steam-powered robots in a rare Victorian-era Steampunk atmosphere, complete with Jules Verne stories, mechanisms, underground mines and cities.Įach level takes you further into the depths of the planet in search of the source of the looming threat to peace on the planet. Iron Heart is a strategy game which revolves around defending your base by placing towers in tactically advantageous positions and using special skills. Hordes of invaders are emerging from the bowels of the earth to enslave the people of the surface. Fight a soulless steel army! Prove your mettle in a storm of fire and steam!
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