With massive patches of slow zones now mostly repaired, MBTA officials have set their sights on pushing some subway speeds to even higher levels as one of the next major goals.

For the Orange Line, it will be 55 miles per hour. "We're within days from that goal, meeting that goal," Jody Ray, the T's Maintenance of Way senior director, said at the meeting. "We did all the ...

Jody Ray is a travel writer and photojournalist based in New Orleans. He is the creator of Exit Strategy, a project that seeks to discover the world through political conflict, culture ...

Jody Ray is a writer and multimedia journalist with work appearing in the BBC, The Daily Beast, Jacobin, New Humanist, Telegraph (UK), and other outlets. His interests include geopolitics, ...