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T plans weekend Red Line closures

Northern section to be overhauled

By Eric Moskowitz

 |  Globe Staff  

  October 22, 2011

The MBTA will shut down the Red Line north of Harvard Square on weekends from November through March to complete a long-deferred $80-million repair project needed to keep subway trains from derailing. That means more than 21,200 Saturday riders and 14,200 Sunday riders who board at Porter, Davis, and Alewife stations on a typical weekend must wait for substitute buses plying the crowded streets of Cambridge and Somerville or find another way to get around.

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