If approved, the T’s preferred plan would set in motion a modernization of the 2.6 mile-long Ashmont-Mattapan trolley line that could cost more than $200 million over a 10-year, three-phase rollout.

Tim Murphy loves his job.Tim drives the Mattapan-?Ashmont trolley, the extension of the Red Line that takes over where the subway ends. The trolleys are the only vehicles in the MBTA fleet not ...

Trolley service between Ashmont and Mattapan resumed Monday afternoon after an overhead power problem that forced the MBTA to replace trolleys with shuttle buses earlier in the day, the agency said.

The aging trolleys will soon be on their last wheels and the T is debating whether to replace them with cars from the Green Line or turn the 2.6 mile line into a busway.

Four trolleys operate daily on the 2.6 miles of track running between Ashmont Station and Mattapan Station. An average of 6,600 rides are taken on the fleet every weekday, according to MBTA data.

Mattapan Trolley Update: Regular service between Mattapan and Ashmont has resumed with delays of about 15 minutes after earlier flooding at Milton Station.

He said the T expects the refurbished trolleys to run for the next decade as the line transitions to different vehicles. The T says 6,600 people a day ride the 2.6-mile, eight-station “Mattapan ...

The Mattapan trolley, known to its friends as the M Line and to its mother as the Ashmont-Mattapan High Speed Line, is quite the quirky (insert sparkle emoji) little line. Shuttling between Ashmont ...

The ordeal began shortly before 7 a.m. Monday, when a Mattapan trolley became disabled at Butler Station due to a mechanical issue, MBTA spokesperson Lisa Battiston explained in a statement.

The Mattapan line connects the Boston neighborhood and Milton to the MBTA's Red Line at the Ashmont Station in Dorchester. The MBTA reported that an average of about 6,600 people use the trolley ...

The MBTA said at about 8:30 p.m. that Mattapan Line trolley service had resumed with residual delays. Video from Sky5 showed multiple police cruisers parked outside Ashmont Station with their ...