Keolis Commuter Services

Press Releases

MBTA
MBTA Commuter Rail train.
The pilot fuels the locomotives with hydrotreated vegetable oil, which is made from vegetable oil and animal fats and emits less carbon than fossil diesel.
May 15, 2025
The agreement, which includes pay increases and sick time for conductors, will be retroactive to July 1, 2023, when the contract first became amendable.
May 8, 2025
Request for proposals seeks battery-electric train manufacturer.
Feb. 10, 2025
NaviLens technology helps passengers who are blind or have low vision to navigate stations with a smartphone app.
Sept. 3, 2024
MassDOT
MassDOT celebrates $54 million plan to bring battery-electric train service to Fairmount Commuter Line.
In July, the MBTA Board of Directors approved Keolis’s plan to introduce BEMUs onto the Fairmount Line, which would run every 20 minutes on weekdays.
Aug. 14, 2024
MBTA
MBTA transfers dispatching responsibilities for South Coast Rail territory to Keolis Commuter Services.
The upcoming transition includes preparations for Keolis to assume maintenance responsibilities, effective Feb. 1, 2025.
Aug. 5, 2024
MBTA
A rendering of the battery electric multiple unit trains.
Keolis Commuter Services will act as a Project Delivery Partner to manage the new decarbonized fleet, additional power and charging infrastructure and a new light maintenance ...
July 26, 2024
Keolis Commuter Services
Keolis Commuter Services complete station beautification efforts at two Fairmount Line stations.
Volunteers worked with community groups and local officials at Talbot Avenue Station and Four Corners/Geneva Station to clean up the station areas, plant flowers and clear overgrown...
July 17, 2024
Keolis Commuter Services
Keolis to launch employee suicide prevention and awareness training with Samaritans.
The training program expands the partnership between Samaritans and Keolis through training of frontline personnel to identify people at risk, developing strategies for engaging...
March 21, 2024
The MBTA, in partnership with Commuter Rail operator Keolis, was able to accelerate construction of the Lynn Commuter Rail Station on the Newburyport/Rockport Line temporary platform...
Dec. 18, 2023

Articles

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Jeff Kessler, Director of Service Delivery Innovation, Keolis Commuter Services
Aug. 22, 2023
Top row: Citilink; bottom row left to right: CTE; Keolis Commuter Services; TYLin
Clockwise from top left: Elizabeth Hoffman; LaTasha Thompson; Casey Claypool; Peter DeFazio; Mandy Liongson and Joseph Giulietti.
Personnel updates from around the transit industry.
May 2, 2023

Additional content from Keolis Commuter Services

MBTA
A rendering of the Lynn Commuter Rail station platform after improvements in March 2022.
MBTA was able to accelerate work on the temporary platform after Keolis provided an alternative platform design and modified construction plan that helped to shorten procurement...
Oct. 12, 2023
MBTA
Keolis completes repairs to MBTA Commuter Rail tracks in Leominster.
Commuter Rail tracks were damaged when severe flash flooding on Sept. 11 overwhelmed the Leominster’s drainage system and washed away the ground under both sets of tracks near...
Sept. 20, 2023
MBTA
The emergency response exercise took place in Freetown on July 27, 2023, and allowed local emergency response groups to receive hands-on MBTA commuter rail equipment familiarization training.
The emergency response exercise was held to allow public safety personnel from the area of Campanelli Drive in Freetown to receive hands-on commuter rail equipment familiarization...
Aug. 7, 2023
MBTA Commuter Rail
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The new gates are part of MBTA’s fare transformation program.
Sept. 26, 2022
Keolis
A rendering of the new fare gates.
Construction is underway to install electronic fare gates on the North Station concourse.
March 31, 2022