The line that brought Green Line service to Somerville opened in late March, 32 years after the state promised to expand the service. Customers will have access to free buses during the closure. Service will resume Sept. 19, the MBTA said.
The opening of the Medford branch of the Green Line extension has also been plagued by repeated delays. It was scheduled to begin carrying passengers in December, then in May and then this summer. Test trains began operating on the new branch on May 14, the MBTA said. The MBTA did not specify a date in late November when it expects the service to be available.
The Medford branch includes five stations: College Avenue, Ball Square, Magoun Square, Gilman Square, and East Somerville.
Since the July 2021 Green Line collision, the T has suffered a number of problems: an escalator malfunctioned at Back Bay Station, causing a bloodbath and injuring nine people, a commuter rail train killed a woman in her car after a Wilmington signal malfunction, two other trains on The Green Line crashed and derailed, injuring four people, and a man was dragged to his death by a Red Line train at Broadway Station after his arm got caught in a subway door.
The death prompted intense scrutiny from federal transit safety regulators, who began a near-unprecedented inspection of the subway system in mid-April. The Federal Transit Administration is expected to release its final report on the T this month.
In June, the FTA said it determined the MBTA did not have enough dispatchers to safely operate its subways, so the agency cut service on the Orange, Blue and Red lines by more than 20 percent. Federal inspectors also said the T needs to repair and upgrade large sections of subway tracks.
This report used material from previous Globe stories.
Laura Crimaldi can be reached at laura.crimaldi@globe.com. Follow her on Twitter @lauracrimaldi. Taylor Dolven can be reached at taylor.dolven@globe.com. Follow her on Twitter @taydolven.
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