Transit Police have released photos of a guy they say jumped down on the tracks at Aquarium and then walked down into the tunnel so he could take a tunnel selfie around 8 p.m. Wednesday evening. Read more.
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By adamg - 7/28/16 - 5:38 pm
The Blue Line is on the track to madness this evening due to switch problems at Wonderland.
At 5:30 p.m., Tim Lawrence reported:
Train has been 1 min away for 10 min now. State is a mess. Platform full. Avoid Blue Line.
By adamg - 7/14/16 - 12:41 pm
Tom Griffiths shared a Blue Line car today with an exercise maven.
Earlier, at Back Bay:
Sometimes you just can't wait to get to the gym.
By adamg - 4/30/16 - 10:44 am
The T reports escalators and elevators at Haymarket, North Station, Government Center, Lechmere and Science Park aren't working because they've lost power. That also means the fare gates at some stations are open and the lights are off. The T is running a shuttle bus between Park Street and Lechmere for Green Line riders who can't take the stairs.
By adamg - 4/5/16 - 6:14 pm
Gin Dumcius reports the two-years-in-the-making like-new Government Center station is already leaking.
UPDATE: MBTA says it's on the case.
By adamg - 3/28/16 - 7:46 am
The T's started posting daily reliability stats, broken down by buses, commuter rail and subway. If you click on the large plus sign for each, you'll get more detailed breakdowns by line (and looks like the T's finally acknowledged the Silver Line is a bus, because that's where you'll find its data).
By adamg - 3/21/16 - 10:38 pm
Michael Sangalang shows us the newly re-opened Government Center T station tonight.
By adamg - 3/21/16 - 12:55 pm
Gov. Baker welcomed the first riders into the new Government Center station today - people in wheelchairs, who can access the T at the station for the first time ever, at a formal opening ceremony.
Replacing the old bunker with an airier, handicap accessible station took two years and cost $88 million.
Concrete Plaza shows us people wanted to get a look:
By roadman - 3/9/16 - 5:27 pm
According to BDC.
http://www.boston.com/news/2016/03/09/mbta-moves-government-center-openi...
Now, what's the over/under that they will open the station early, but then close it on select weekends/evenings to actually finish all the work - like they did with Assembly Station on the Orange Line?
By adamg - 3/2/16 - 10:37 pm
Jordan Frias found himself in a rush-hour-like crowd at State Street around 10 p.m., 15 minutes or so after a train switched to the Pearly Gates track at Maverick.
By adamg - 2/29/16 - 8:34 am
The T reports "minor" delays on the Blue Line due to a switch problem. Kate Donaghey watched workers manually operate a switch at Airport. She adds:
Train arrived northbound, pulled up a bit, they switched the tracks and the train came back Bowdoin bound. Waited about 12mins today.
By adamg - 2/25/16 - 8:33 am
Some sort of power problem at Back Bay means the T is urging people headed for downtown points to use the Green Line instead. Meanwhile, The Management reports:
Stuck at Aquarium and i can't even see the penguins. Blue Line delay due to "signal problem" at Orient Heights.
By adamg - 2/15/16 - 9:29 am
To shield them from the frigid conditions, #MBTA subway trains were stored in the tunnels all night long pic.twitter.com/jd8sBBm3ip
— Joe Pesaturo (@JoePesaturo) February 15, 2016
By adamg - 1/25/16 - 4:25 pm
Transit Police report they have obtained a search warrant for the arrest of Rogelio Alvarado, 21, for last week's double shooting at the Maverick Blue Line station.
Alvarado faces charges of armed assault with intent to murder and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, as well as a number of firearms violations, police say. Read more.
By adamg - 1/19/16 - 4:06 pm
Beth Gavin gives us the bird's-eye view of Blue Line riders trying to get on one of the buses running instead of trains due to the investigation into the shooting at the Maverick Square T stop.
By adamg - 1/19/16 - 2:53 pm
Maverick Square. Photo by Justin Perricone.
UPDATE, 4:19 p.m. The Blue Line has resumed service through Maverick and Maverick Square has been re-opened to traffic.
Maverick Square is shut down as Transit and Boston Police investigate a double shooting inside the Blue Line station around 2:30 p.m.
One witness reports it happened on a train.
Buses are running instead of the Blue Line between Bowdoin and Airport. Congress Street downtown was shut between State and Washington due to congestion caused by all the buses.
By adamg - 1/19/16 - 7:48 am
UPDATE: Another Blue Line train died, at Airport. More trolleys died, at Waban and Arlington.
So far this morning, trains have shuffled off this mortal coil on the Green Line (Brookline Village and Reservoir on the D and Washington Street on the B) and the Blue Line (State Street). Riders on the Orange and Red lines didn't miss any of the fun, however, due to what the T says are now fixed signal issues near Wellington and JFK/UMass (the Blue Line also had some signal woes). Red Line riders also saw trains slow due to the ongoing work on the Longfellow.
By adamg - 12/29/15 - 5:12 pm
Like the last train out of Paris, only Humphrey Bogart isn't involved. Photo by Alex Martland.
Just in time for rush hour, the T has shut the Blue Line, because something isn't right with the tunnel between State Street and Aquarium, as in a metal grate falling from the ceiling onto the tracks.
Buses are now running between Bowdoin and Maverick, after a fashion. Alex Martland reports:
This is going swimmingly. No signs, no one knows where to stand... Blue line gonna blue line.
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