assachusetts state governor, Mr Charlie Baker, Massachusetts Department of Transportation

(MassDOT) Secretary and CEO, Mrs Stephanie Pollack, and MBTA general manager, Mr Steve
Poftak, officially launched the new fleet at Wellington station in Medford.

In October 2014 MassDOT awarded CNR Changchun Railway Vehicles (now part of CRRC
Corporation) a $US 566.6m contract to supply 152 vehicles to replace the PA3 cars built by Hawker
Siddeley Canada in 1979-81. A further 132 vehicles for were also ordered for the Red Line, an order
which was increased to 252 cars in December 2016, taking the total value of the Red and Orange
Line New Vehicle Procurement Program to more than $US 1bn.

Most of the vehicles are being assembled at CRRC’s new $US 95m rolling stock manufacturing
facility in Springfield, Massachusetts. So far the Springfield plant has dispatched 10 completed