(The following appeared on the Patriot Ledger website on March 21, 2011.)
BOSTON — Come late April and into May, you can forget about grabbing a weekend train up to Boston for a jaunt to the museums or Back Bay shops.
That’s because rail workers have resumed the $91.5 million project to replace defective concrete ties on 61 miles of commuter rail lines on the South Shore.
Off-peak riders will have to climb aboard shuttle buses as the project moves northward in stages and forces the MBTA to keep portions of the tracks train-free while crews swap 147,000 defective concrete ties with wooden ties.
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