Taylor Dolven | The Boston Globe

“If the Orange Line feels slower to you than before the shutdown, you’re not imagining it.

Despite repeated promises from the MBTA of faster travel times, the Orange Line has been running slower this week than before the agency shut down the entire line for 30 days to make repairs, data show.

Before the repairs, it took about 40 to 45 minutes to travel from one end of the Orange Line to the other, depending on the direction, according to MBTA travel time data analyzed by TransitMatters, a public transportation advocacy group.

This week, it took as long as 48 minutes in either direction to cover the same ground.”