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An understaffed command center where some train dispatchers get only four hours off after 20-hour shifts. More than 220 Green Line drivers and dozens of other workers with lapsed safety certifications. Those major red flags are among the suite of problems investigators have found so far during a probe of the MBTA's safety.
A photo posted to social media by a passenger showed people walking through a tunnel back to the Park Street MBTA station.
Each of the federal directives gives the MBTA between 24 hours and 30 days to begin responding to the safety concerns.
Federal Transit Administration officials identified four major safety issues it wants the MBTA to fix as quickly as possible.
Federal transit overseers will wrap up their on-site inspections of the MBTA this week, and they have already flagged a quartet of safety issue areas they want...