Our hobbled Red Line: 'Bailing wire and duct tape' keep things running
When the architect Chris Stanley and his family moved to Dorchester nearly 23 years ago, the Red Line was a key factor in their decision. The Ashmont MBTA station was a “pigeon barn,” he quipped, but they didn’t want to own two cars. He recalls that in his first ten years in the neighborhood, he worked with other neighbors, city officials, and state lawmakers on upgrading and