← Compositions

Monday, August 24, 2026

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Day health

70.6

100 = every line running clean

Arrivals recorded

40,758

349 distinct trains

Peak trains at once

147

7:25 AM

Worst gap

234 min

Orange · Forest Hills · 9:37 AM

The Score

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String-line diagram of every MBTA subway train on Monday, August 24, 2026

Time runs left to right across the service day (4 AM → 3 AM). Each panel is one line, top to bottom along the route. Every diagonal is a single train: steep is fast, flat is stopped, a cluster is bunching, and blank space is the wait you remember.

Trains in service

Line by line

Redstrained

median 6m · p90 14m

6,905 arrivals · 28 trains

Orangehealthy

median 6m · p90 11m

2,810 arrivals · 7 trains

Bluehealthy

median 5m · p90 11m

4,428 arrivals · 18 trains

Green-Bhealthy

median 9m · p90 17m

6,321 arrivals · 41 trains

Green-Cstrained

median 9m · p90 18m

4,534 arrivals · 60 trains

Green-Dhealthy

median 8m · p90 17m

6,944 arrivals · 60 trains

Green-Estrained

median 7m · p90 15m

7,417 arrivals · 71 trains

Mattapanrough

median 7m · p90 26m

1,399 arrivals · 6 trains

First light

The first recorded arrival on each line — the day starting without you.

  • 4:46:09 AMAshmont
  • 5:16:10 AMGreen Street
  • 4:38:49 AMOrient Heights
  • 5:05:14 AMBoston College
  • 5:02:00 AMEnglewood Avenue
  • 4:20:47 AMRiverside
  • 4:45:19 AMEast Somerville
  • 5:03:30 AMCentral Avenue

Last call

The last recorded arrival on each line. After this, the tunnels go quiet.

  • 1:29:02 AMAlewife
  • 1:17:50 AMForest Hills
  • 1:15:03 AMWonderland
  • 2:59:27 AMBoston College
  • 1:43:18 AMCleveland Circle
  • 1:53:31 AMRiverside
  • 1:46:36 AMEast Somerville
  • 9:47:50 PMCedar Grove

The wait you remember

234 minutes of nothing on the Orange at Forest Hills, starting 9:37 AM.

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