Make the trains run on time? Change the schedule

By Noah Bierman, Globe Staff

The MBTA’s tardiest commuter train line will be getting a new schedule to better reflect the time it actually takes to run the train, state representative Alice Hanlon Peisch announced today.

Peisch said she has been told by the train’s private operator, the Massachusetts Bay Commuter Railroad Company, the new schedule will take effect Feb. 19.

“Riders of the Worcester-Framingham line need an accurate schedule to plan their lives accordingly. The train schedule has been unreliable for too long,” said Peisch, a Democrat from Wellesley.

Scheduling will not make the chronically late trains go faster. The MBTA and its contractor have been struggling to merge commuters' needs with those of CSX, the freight rail operator that dispatches the line.

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