Red Line weekend service resumes between Harvard and Alewife stations
After $80 million worth of construction and four months of shuttle buses, Red Line weekend service resumed between Harvard and Alewife stations on schedule Saturday.
The northernmost three Red Line stations had been closed every weekend since Nov. 5, when crews began sealing cracks and leaks in “floating slabs,’’ the noise-muffling rubber and concrete blocks that hold up tracks, according to Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority officials.
Normally, MBTA crews perform touch-ups on tracks between 1 and 5 a.m. so as not to disrupt service. But because the concrete they used in this project takes 24 hours to cure, they had to shut down stations.
The T said service would resume this weekend as part of the original project announcement in November, agency spokesman Joe Pesaturo said, but did not post signs this weekend saying the project was completed.
By the MBTA’s assessment, an estimated 40,000 people typically board at Alewife, Davis, and Porter stations on Saturdays and Sundays.
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