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PCCs that outlasted the Boeing cars!

Mattapan trolleys get cool update
MBTA installing air conditioning
April 26, 2007
The trolleys on the MBTA's Mattapan line, among the oldest working  
transit vehicles in the nation, are getting cool.

MBTA General Manager Daniel A. Grabauskas announced yesterday that  
the T would spend up to $1.1 million to outfit the 1940-era vehicles  
with something they've never had before: air conditioning.
The trolleys are the only cars in the Massachusetts Bay  
Transportation Authority's 2,340 vehicle fleet without air conditioning.
The small fleet, which runs between Mattapan and Ashmont stations on  
a separate spur of the Red Line, is currently being refurbished.  
There has been no service on the line since last June.
All 10 trolleys are scheduled to go back to work in November.
The air conditioning will probably be installed over the winter and  
will debut in the summer of 2008.
The trolleys make 300 trips a day on the 2.55-mile line, carrying  
about 7,000 riders per day.
"We don't want to lose the charm of the old [trolleys], and we'll  
maintain that,," Grabauskas said in an interview.
"But clearly on a hot summer day, air conditioning becomes something  
that our customers expect."
MAC DANIEL 

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