The T
It's amazing what you can get on Etsy these days
By adamg - 2/2/12 - 4:32 pm
At least, we're assuming this guy got his unique jacket on Etsy - just look at that fine handcrafted design!
Rima Chaddha Mycynek spotted man and jacket at Harvard Square today.
MBTA investigating possible gay-bashing attack on the Mattapan Line
By adamg - 2/1/12 - 3:53 pmThe Dorchester Reporter reports on an incident Monday night in which a man was assaulted by two men who also yelled "racial and homophobic slurs" at him near the Butler Street stop - and then tried to pull him off the trolley.
Man charged with dickish behavior on a T bus in Dorchester
By adamg - 2/1/12 - 11:31 am
A Quincy man was arrested at Ashmont station yesterday after a passenger on an arriving 215 bus from Quincy reported he'd been masturbating on the trip.
Michael Wilson, 51, was charged with open and gross behavior, according to MBTA Transit Police. A police report quotes one witness who said she was sitting in the rear of the bus around 11 a.m. when she noticed that Wilson, sitting in the middle of the bus and facing another passenger, unzipped his pants, whipped it out and went to town. The passenger who got a front-row seat fled the bus immediately on its arrival at Ashmont, police said.
According to the report, an officer flagged down by the bus driver and a T inspector found Wilson sitting at the Route 23 berth, his pants unzipped, his belt unbuckled and his hands down his pants.
Innocent, etc.
Person hit, killed by Amtrak train at Ruggles
By adamg - 1/31/12 - 6:43 pmUpdate, 7:25 p.m.: One track was cleared and limited train service through Ruggles resumed.
Commuter-rail and Amtrak service through Ruggles is stopped as transit and fire officials investigate a fatal train-vs-person collision on the inbound side this evening. The T is describing it as a "trespasser strike."
Dan Esdale reports his outbound train to Franklin stopped, then headed back to South Station.
In the other direction, Craig Herman reports an Amtrak train is just sitting at Forest Hills.
Menino, conservationists decry combination of fare increases and service cuts
By adamg - 1/31/12 - 7:59 amThe Globe reports the mayor wants the legislature to raise the gas tax or find some other way to help out the debt-ridden MBTA, rather than letting its riders founder.
The Conservation Law Foundation, meanwhile, is decrying the state's current position that riders can choose steep fare hikes or massive service cuts:
The MBTA has created a false choice between draconian service cuts and drastic fare increases. The reality is it's a lose-lose situation for transit users and Massachusetts. If Secretary Davey is hearing a chorus of 'I would rather pay more but not cut the service,' it wasn't singing at any of the hearings we’ve been attending.”
Crushing or perving? Hot or Not comes to the T
By adamg - 1/29/12 - 6:05 pmThe Metro reports on the imminent arrival of a Web site that will let you take pictures of people on the T, then post them for everybody's amusement sober assessments. The founders of Boston T Crush, based on sites they have up in London and New York, promise it will be "complimentary" rather than "creepy" and say Bostonians are getting a special treat - ours will be the first site to devote space to the ladies.
Motion said the idea came to him and several friends during a night of drinking; and as soon as it launched, it soared.
State considering even higher fares at rush hour to save MBTA services
By adamg - 1/27/12 - 9:35 amThe Metro reports Transportation Secretary Rich Davey is looking at some new possible options for preserving existing T services, including charging higher fares during rush hour.
T bus driver charged with faking attempted shooting, collecting worker's comp
By adamg - 1/27/12 - 8:16 amNancy Parker, 53, will be arraigned in Suffolk Superior Court today on charges she faked an attack on her MBTA bus in Chelsea, then collected worker's compensation.
Parker, of Burlington, is formally charged with worker's compensation fraud, misleading an investigator and filing a false report for the Oct. 2, 2007 incident on a 111 bus, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. The T fired her after they learned of discrepancies in her claim, the DA's office says.
In 2009, a Chelsea District Court judge tore into prosecutors, saying that while Parker had changed her initial story of being shot by a stranger in a robbery attempt to being shot by an ex-lover, there was little evidence to suggest she was lying about actually being shot.
Her arraignment today comes after an indictment by a grand jury.
Innocent, etc.
Crumbling Orient Heights T stop to get rehab; work will mean service disruptions
By adamg - 1/26/12 - 9:42 pmThe East Boston Times-Free Press reports the station will be completely replaced by the spring of 2014 and that work to begin later this year will mean the station will be shut for six months and that buses will replace trains past Airport on weekends for four months.
