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Can reworking traffic lights make the Green Line faster?

If the the changes reduce the time that Green Line drivers have to stop at red lights and yield to car traffic, the trains will be spaced out better. Keith Bedford / Boston Globe

By The Boston Globe

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There’s good news for Green Line riders who lament the crawl of their daily commutes.

The MBTA has been reconfiguring traffic lights to give Green Line trains priority over street traffic, and officials hope to make the changes permanent in the fall.

Jessica Casey, a deputy chief operating officer for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, said the new system could speed up a trip on the Green Line’s B branch by 30 seconds.

“That’s a big deal,” Casey said Monday at a meeting of the authority’s oversight board.

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